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KMC CH 21: US
KMC CH 21: The Church in the US
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Juan Padilla | Missionary, Servant of God, martyred by Indians in Kansas c.1540 |
| Bl. Kateri Tekakwitha | Called the "Lily of the Mohawks" because of her holiness |
| St. Augustine in Florida | First permanent settlement & first parish in the US |
| Quebec Act | Passed by the British Parliament, it extended political & legal concessions to French Canadian Catholics |
| Charles Carroll | Only Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence |
| Georgetown | Oldest Catholic university in the US |
| St. Elizabeth Ann Seton | Convert from Episcopalianism, she is one of the pioneers of the parochial school movement. |
| St. Rose Philippine Duchesne | Established the first US convent of the Religious of the Sacred Heart in Missouri in 1818 |
| St. John Neumann | Native of Bohemia, fourth bishop of Philadelphia & a pioneer in the parochial school movement. |
| Archbishop John Carroll | First bishop in the US & the most influential Catholic in the establishment of the Church in America |
| Baltimore | First diocese in the US, erected in 1789 |
| Lay Trusteeism | System by which laymen became the owners of Church property & administered Church affairs. |
| "The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk" | A false account of the life of a nun written by Protestant ministers. |
| Protestant response to nineteenth-century Catholic immigrants | Books & pamphlets attacked the moral uprightness of priests & nuns; churches were burned & some Catholics lynched; the Catholic Church was accused of sending papal spies to America; political cartoons depicted the Irish as monkeys or wild-eyed terrorists. |
| How Catholic immigrants sought to protect themselves against nativists | They built Catholic orphanages, hospitals, & nursing homes as a way of living out their faith; they established support networks that centered on parish life & parochial schools. |
| Fr. Isaac Hecker | Convert to Catholicism, he founded a new religious community, the Misssionary Priests of St. Paul the Apostle (Paulists), committed to the conversion of Protestant America. |
| Paulists | A religious community founded by Fr. Isaac Hecker, dedicated to the conversion of Protestant Americans. |
| Americanism | Condemned by Pope Leo XIII in his "Testem benevolentiae," this movement sought to adapt Catholicism to American principles & ideas |
| James Cardinal Gibbons | Influential American Cardinal who campaigned hard to keep the Vatican from forbidding membership in the Knights of Labor, which some people considered a secret society. |
| St. Frances Xavier Cabrini | Founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart, & the first citizen of the US to be canonized |
| Msgr. John Ryan | Nicknamed "Monsignor New Dealer" for his support of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Depression-era politics. |
| Dorothy Day | Founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, she was also an activist for the homeless & impoverished |
| Archbishop Fulton Sheen | First significant television preacher, he appeared on the popular program "Life Is Worth Living." |
| John F. Kennedy | First Catholic President of the US |
| United States Conference of Catholic Bishops | Organization which replaced the NCWC (National Catholic Welfare Conference) |
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