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1 - American Catholicism’s Early Foundations

from Part I - Historical Overview

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2021

By
Maura Jane Farrelly
Edited by
Margaret M. McGuinness  and
Thomas F. Rzeznik
Margaret M. McGuinness
Affiliation:
La Salle University, Philadelphia
Thomas F. Rzeznik
Affiliation:
Seton Hall University, New Jersey
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Summary

Catholics were in the United States from the very beginning. Some were the descendants of people who had migrated to Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New York in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries – primarily from England, but to a lesser extent from Ireland, Germany, and Portugal. Others were the descendants of people who had migrated to Florida and Louisiana from Spain, France, and Quebec during those same centuries.

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The Cambridge Companion to American Catholicism , pp. 13 - 30
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Further Reading

Carey, Patrick W. People, Priests, and Prelates: Ecclesiastical Democracy and the Tensions of Trusteeism. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1987.Google Scholar
Clark, Emily. Masterless Mistresses: The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727–1834. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.Google Scholar
Farrelly, Maura Jane. Papist Patriots: The Making of an American Catholic Identity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.Google Scholar
Pasquier, Michael. Fathers on the Frontier: French Missionaries and the Roman Catholic Priesthood in the United States, 1789–1870. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.Google Scholar
Starr, Kevin. Continental Ambitions: Roman Catholics in North America. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2016.Google Scholar

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