Lecture Jan 27th, 2004

A Brief History of Catholicism in the U.S.

Colonial Catholicism

· Spanish-Mission settlements

· French-martyrs

· English

o Maryland

o Jesuit farms

o John Carroll

Catholicism in the 1800s

1. Immigration

– Irish

– Germans

– Italians

– Polish

– French Canadians

– Mexicans

2. Consequences of Immigration

– Expansion

– Conflict

– Nativism

3. Papal Authority

– Pius IX "Syllabus of Errors" (1864)

– Vatican I (1869)-papal infallibility

– Aterni Patris (1879)

Americanism (1880-1910)

• Characteristics of Americanist Thought

• People

– Isaac Hecker, John Ireland, John Keane

• Critics

• Church’s response

– Testum Benevolatia (1899)

Devotion & the Spiritual Life

• Americanist Piety and internal devotion

• Holy Spirit

• External devotions

• Immigrant traditions--festa, passion play

• The Madonna of 115th Street Robert Orsi.

Social Justice (1890-1940)

• Rerum Novarum (1891)

– John Ryan

• Social Gospel Movement

– Walter Rauschenbusch, Edward McGlynn

• Liturgical Movement

– Fr. William Busch, Dom Virgil Michel

• Catholic Worker Movement

– Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, personalism

• Friendship Houses

• Grail Movement

Vatican II (1962-1965)

• John XXIII, Paul VI

• Aggiornamento

• Liturgical Changes

• Ecumenism

• Lay Apostolate

• Declaration on Religious Freedom

– John Courtney Murray

Some Results of Vatican II

• Separatism

• Exodus of Religious (3, 413 priests)

• Lay initiative

– Renewal movements-charismatics, cursillos

– Increased participation of women

• Diverse approaches to theology

• De-emphasis or change of emphasis on devotional life

The last 60 years

• Upward mobility & Mainstreamization
• Sanctity & Dignity of Life
• Vat II & Humanae Vitae (1967), Charles Curran
• Openness to inter-religious dialogue
• New waves of immigration
• Use of new technologies