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BREAD MORTAR THE PRESENCE OF ROMAN CATHOLICISM
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A Christian Family Tree
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When did Catholics arrive in America?Spanish
Catholics
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JUNIPERO SERRA
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French Catholics
Jacques Cartier
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Jacques Marquette
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English Catholics
Lord Baltimore founds a New World haven for
English Catholics (persecuted in England)
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Defining ROMAN CATHOLIC
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1. Sacramentalism Sacred Space
CERTAIN ACTIONS, OBJECTS, PLACES, ARE SACRED
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The traditional seven sacraments

• Baptism
• Confirmation
• Holy Orders
• Marriage
• Extreme Unction
• Confession
• Communion
• Note how the sacraments track the typical life
  cycle

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Sacramentals
Other objects, actions, places not part of the
Seven Sacraments, but still considered Sacred
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2. Liturgy Sacred Time

• Advent
• Christmas
• Lent
• Easter
• Ordinary Time
• MUCH LIKE THE JEWISH YEARLY CYCLE

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Paraliturgical devotions

• Holidays
• Saints Days
• Sacred Heart devotions
• Forty Hours
• Benediction

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3. Ethics Natural Law

• The right way to live is actually built into
  nature
• And therefore, the moral law is in a sense (1)
  objective and (2) social
• Catholicisms concern with peace, social justice

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AMERICAN Catholics
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Ethnicity

• Waves of Immigrants who are Catholic
• Irish, Germans, Italians, Poles, Latinos
• Catholics identified as poor, working class,
  immigrant
• Catholics deeply interested in immigration
• Sometimes divided by ethnicity

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Anti-Catholicism

• 1830s American Party (Know-Nothings) demand
  halt to Catholic immigration
• 1834 attack on Ursuline Convent
• Long history of anti-Catholicism in U.S.

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Anti-Catholicism examples

• 1899 Pope Leo XIII criticizes Americanism
• 1928 Al Smith
• 1960 John Kennedy

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Changing American Catholicism

• Vatican II (1960s) (major re-organization of
  Catholicism)
• Influence of predominant Protestant culture (less
  formal services more stress on preaching)
• Mainstreaming of Ethnics