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In 2008, Joe Biden became the first Catholic to be elected Vice President of the United States. His successor Mike Pence was raised as a Catholic but converted to evangelical Protestantism. In 2020, Biden was elected the second Catholic president of the United States. Two First Ladies (Jacqueline Kennedy and Melania Trump) have been professed ...
The New Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice is a book written by Philip Jenkins, Distinguished Professor of History and Religious studies at Pennsylvania State University, dealing with contemporary anti-Catholic bigotry, particularly in the United States. Jenkins, a former Catholic who converted to the Episcopal Church in 1980, [1 ...
The Lamp is an American bimonthly magazine devoted to literature, culture, and politics from a Catholic perspective. [1] [2] It was founded in 2020 by Matthew Walther and William Borman. [3] [dead link ] The magazine regularly features reporting, personal essays, and book reviews on a broad range of topics.
On one side are more centrist or measured voices, like the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ statement expressing concern about Trump’s early executive actions harming “the most ...
Catholic Action was the name of many groups of lay Catholics attempting to encourage Catholic influence on political society. Many Catholic movements were born in 19th-century Austria, such as the Progressive Catholic movement promoted by thinkers such as Wilfried Daim and Ernst Karl Winter. Once strongly opposed by the Church because of its ...
The Catholic Sun: 115,000 Weekly 1985 Tucson: Catholic Outlook: California: Fresno: The Grapevine: Monthly 2007 Los Angeles: Angelus Magazine (formerly. The Tidings) Weekly 1895 Oakland: The Catholic Voice: Biweekly 1962 Orange: Orange County Catholic: Weekly Sacramento: Catholic Herald: Bimonthly San Bernardino: Inland Catholic Byte: San Diego ...
Founded in 1924 by Michael Williams (1877–1950) and the Calvert Associates, Commonweal is the oldest independent Roman Catholic journal of opinion in the United States. The magazine was originally modeled on The New Republic and The Nation but “expressive of the Catholic note” in covering literature, the arts, religion, society, and politics.
American anti-Catholicism originally derived from the theological heritage of the Protestant Reformation and the European wars of religion (16th–18th century). Because the Reformation was based on an effort to correct what was perceived as the errors and excesses of the Catholic Church, its proponents formed strong positions against the Roman clerical hierarchy in general and the Papacy in ...