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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 Southeast Alaska Catholic: Monthly 2010 Alabama: Birmingham: One Voice: 20,000 [2] Weekly 1969 Mobile: The Catholic Week: Weekly 1935 Arkansas: Little Rock: Arkansas Catholic: 7,000 [3] Weekly 1911 Arizona: Gallup: Voice of the Southwest: Quarterly 1961 Phoenix: The Catholic Sun: 115,000 Weekly 1985 Tucson: Catholic Outlook: California ...
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 ...
Members of the Catholic Church have been active in the politics of the United States since the mid 19th century. The United States has never had an important religious party (unlike Europe and Latin America). There has never been a Catholic religious party, either local, state or national.
By the beginning of the 20th century, approximately one-sixth of the population of the United States was Catholic. Modern Catholic immigrants come to the United States from the Philippines, Poland and Latin America, especially Mexico and Central America. This multiculturalism and diversity has influenced the conduct of Catholicism in the United ...
When the book was released, The New York Times refused to accept advertising for the book and many bookstores refused to carry it. [8] However, the book sold 240,000 copies in its first edition. [9] It was praised by John Dewey, Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, Henry Sloane Coffin, and Horace Kallen as well as scholarly reviewers. [10]
Hennessy, James American Catholics: A history of the Roman Catholic community in the United States (1981) Hunt, Thomas C., Ellis A. Joseph, and Ronald James Nuzzi. Catholic schools in the United States: An encyclopedia (2 vol, 2004). vol 2 online; Lazerson, Marvin (1977). "Understanding American Catholic Educational History".
Rerum novarum provided new impetus for Catholics to become active in the labor movement, even if its exhortation to form specifically Catholic labor unions was widely interpreted as irrelevant to the pluralist context of the United States. While atheism underpinned many European unions and stimulated Catholic unionists to form separate labor ...