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The German Roman Catholic Central Verein of North America, now known as the Catholic Central Verein (Union) of America, is a central body of various German Roman Catholic organizations in North America. [1] The organization was founded on April 15, 1855, as a federation of parish mutual aid societies.
[64] [128] Because conversion away from Catholicism as well as dropping out of religion completely is presently occurring much more quickly among Hispanics than among Euro-American whites, Black (2.9% of US Catholic population) [129] and Asian-American Catholics, it is doubtful they will outnumber the latter three categories of Catholics in the ...
Shaping American Catholicism: Maryland and New York, 1805–1915. (Catholic University of America, 2012). Dolan, Jay P. The Immigrant Church: New York Irish and German Catholics, 1815–1865 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975). Dolan, Jay P. In Search of an American Catholicism: A History of Religion and Culture in Tension (2003)
The American Catholic Experience: A History from Colonial Times to the Present (Doubleday, 1985) (2nd edition, Notre Dame UP, 1992) extract. Dolan, Jay P. The American Catholic Parish: A History from 1850 to the Present (2 vol. Paulist, 1987) Dolan, Jay P. "Immigrants in the City: New York's Irish and German Catholics." Church History 41.3 ...
A distinct Catholic vote existed, however; in the late 19th century, 75% of Irish and German Catholics in America voted for Democratic presidential candidates. [ 7 ] The Irish increasingly controlled the Democratic party machinery in major cities.
Preuss upheld the German Catholic community, denounced the "Americanism" heresy, promoted the Catholic University of America, and anguished over the anti-German America hysteria during World War I. He provided lengthy commentary regarding the National Catholic Welfare Conference, the anti-Catholic factor in the presidential campaign of 1928 ...
At the Vatican, a respectful dialogue about reforming the church; in the U.S., a high-profile display of old-school church power. Among rank-and-file American Catholics, Francis is enormously ...
The majority of German settlers in the valley belonged to Anabaptist denominations, such as the Mennonites, the Dunkers (now known as the Brethren), and others. Smaller and later numbers of settlers were German Catholics or German Jews. Such German Americans were the earliest European settlers of the Shenandoah Valley, mostly in the northern ...