An edition of The Catholic Church in the United States
(1857)
The Catholic Church in the United States
Pages Of Its History Translated And Enlarged By John Gilmary Shea
by Henri de Courcy and John Gilmary Shea
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The Catholic Church in the United States: pages of its history
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The Catholic Church in the United States: a sketch of its ecclesiastical history
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DEDICATION, iii
PREFACE v
CHAPTER I. — THE EARLY INDIAN MISSIONS.
Missions of the Norwegians in the ante-Columbian times — Spanish missions in Florida, New Mexico, Texas, and California — French missions among the Indians in Maine, New York, Michigan, Wisconsin, and the Valley of the Mississippi 11
CHAP. II. — THE COLONIAL CHURCH.
Maryland — Settled by Catholics — Their persecution — Their emancipation — From the year 1684 to 1774 23
CHAP. III. — THE CHURCH IN THE REPUBLIC.
Maryland — Father John Carroll — How the United States granted liberty of conscience to the Catholics — Mission of Father Carroll to Canada 36
CHAP. IV. — THE CHURCH DURING THE REVOLUTION.
Father Carroll and Father Floquet — Father Carroll at Rock Creek 47
CHAP. V. — THE CHURCH IN THE REPUBLIC.
Maryland (1776-1790) — Negotiations for the erection of an Episcopal See. 54
CHAP. VI. — DIOCESE OF BALTIMORE.
Consecration of Bishop Carroll — Jesuit College at Georgetown — Sulpitain Seminary at Baltimore — The French clergy in the United States — Bishop Neale coadjutor — Reorganization of the Society of Jesus — Importance of French immigration 68
CHAP. VII. — THE CHURCH IN MARYLAND.
The Carmelites — Poor Clares — Visitation nuns — Sisters of Charity — Baltimore an ecclesiastical province with four suffragans — Death of Archbishop Carroll 76
CHAP. VIII. — DIOCESE OF BALTIMORE. (1815-1828.)
Most Rev. Leonard Neale, second Archbishop — Most Rev. Ambrose Marechal, third Archbishop — Difficulties of his administration — Progress of Catholicity — Bishops appointed for New Orleans, Charleston, Richmond, and Cincinnati — Labors of the Sulpitlans — Death of Archbishop Marchal 98
CHAP. IX. — DIOCESE OF BALTIMORE. (1828-1829.)
Most Hon. James Whitfield, fourth Archbishop of Baltimore — The Oblates of St. Frances and the colored Catholics — The Association for the Propagation of the Faith and the Leopoldine Society — First Provincial Council of Baltimore, and a retrospect on previous synods of the clergy 118
CHAP. X. — DIOCESE OF BALTIMORE. (1829-1834.)
Second Provincial Council — Decrees as to the election of bishops — Decrees for confiding to the Jesuits the Negroes and Indians — The colony of Liberia and Bishop Barron — The Carmelites — Liberality of Archbishop Whitfield — His character and death. 139
CHAP. XI. — DIOCESE OF BALTIMORE. (1834-1840.
Most Rev. Samuel Eccleston, D. D., fifth Archbishop of Baltimore — The Brothers of the Christian Schools — The Redemptorists — The German Catholics — The Lazarists — Third Council of Baltimore — New Episcopal Sees — Fourth Council of Baltimore — Bishop Forbin-Janson In America — Dioceses of Richmond and Wheeling, and a glance at religion in Virginia 145
CHAP. XII. — DIOCESE OF BALTIMORE. (1840-1846.)
Decrees as to ecclesiastical property — Fifth Council of Baltimore — Decrees against divorce and mixed marriages — Subdivision of the dioceses — Sixth Council of Baltimore — Decree as to the Immaculate Conception — Labors of the Society of Jesus in the United States. 1T0
CHAP. XIII — DIOCESE OF BALTIMORE. (1846-1852.)
Election of Pius IX — Popularity of the Sovereign Pontiff in the United States — Peter's Pence — Seventh Council of Baltimore — Division of the United States into six ecclesiastical provinces — Death of Archbishop Eccleston — Most Rev. Francis P. Kenrick, sixth Archbishop of Baltimore — National Council of Baltimore and new Episcopal Sees. 190
CHAP. XIV. — PENNSYLVANIA. (1680-1810.
First missions at Philadelphia, Goshenhoppen, Conewago, Lancaster — Influence of French intervention in securing respect and toleration for Catholicity — The Augustinians In Pennsylvania — The Franciscans — Schism in the German Church of the Holy Trinity — Foundation of the episcopal See of Philadelphia. 907
CHAP. XV. — DIOCESE OF PHILADELPHIA. (1810-1834.)
The Rt Rev. Michael Egan, first bishop — Very Rev. Louis de Barth, administrator — Rt. Rev. Henry Conwell, second bishop -Schism of St. Mary's Church — Very Rev. William Mathews, administrator — Rt. Rev. Francis P. Kenrick, coadjutor, then third bishop — Religious condition of the diocese in 1834 224
CHAP. XVI. — DIOCESE OF PHILADELPHIA. (1833-1844.)
Commencement and progress of the Anti-Catholic agitation — Various manoeuvres of the fanatics — The Native party — The Philadelphia riots. 240
CHAP. XVII. — DIOCESE OF PHILADELPHIA. (1844-1855.)
Division of the diocese — State of Delaware — The Ladies of the Sacred Heart — The Slaters of the Visitation — The Sisters of Notre Dame — Father Virgil Barber and his family — Works of Bishop F. P. Kenrick — His translation to the metropolitan See of Baltimore — Rt. Rev. John N. Neumann, fourth Bishop of Philadelphia. 258
CHAP. XVIII. — PENNSYLVANIA. (1750-1840.)
Diocese of Pittsburg — The Recollects at Fort Duquesne — The Rev. Father Brauers — Sketch of Prince Demetrius Gallitzin 273
CHAP. XIX. — DIOCESE OF PITTSBURG — DIOCESE OF ERIE. (1792-1856.)
The Abbe Flaget at Pittsburg — The Rev. F. X. O'Brien and Charles B. Maguire — The Poor Clares — The Colony of Asylum — The Chevalier John Keating — Colony of Harman Bottom — Episcopate of the Right Rev. Dr. O'Connor — Sisters of Mercy — The Brothers of the Presentation — The Franciscan Brothers — The Benedictines — Passionists — Early missions at Erie — Bishop Flaget — The present state of the diocese — The Benedictine nuns — Retrospect 258
CHAP. XX — STATE OF NEW YORK. (1642-1708.)
Missions among the Iroquois — Father Jognes — Father Bressani — Father Le Moyne — Emigration of Christians to Canada — Close of the Jesuit missions in New York. 314
CHAP. XXI. — DIOCESE OF NEW YORK. (1640-1760.)
THE DUTCH — The English occupation and Governor Dongan — First Colonial Assembly in 16S8 — Jesuits at New York — Revolution, and persecution of the Catholics — Pretended negro plot, and execution of the Rev. John Ury 334
CHAP. XXII. — STATE OF NEW YORK. (1776-1786.)
Constitution of the State — The English Party and Protestantism — Commencement of Catholic worship in the city of New York — St Peter's Church — Father Whelan and Father Nugent — A trustee of St Peter's in 1786. 345
CHAP. XXIII. — STATE AND DIOCESE OF NEW YORK. (1787-1813.)
Father O'Brien and the yellow fever in New York — The negro, Peter Toussaint — The Abbe Sihourg — Fathers Kohlmann and Fenwick — Erection of an episcopal See at New York — Rt Rev. Luke Concanen, first bishop — His death at Naples — Father Benedict Fenwick, administrator — The New York Literary Institution — Father Fenwick and Thomas Paine — Father Kohlmann and the secrecy of the confessional. 355
CHAP. XXIV. — DIOCESE OF NEW YORK. (1815-1842.)
Bight Rev. John Connolly, second Bishop of New York — Condition of the diocese — Sketch of the Rev. F. A. Malou — Bishop Connolly's first acts — His clergy — The Rev. Mr. Taylor, and his ambitious designs — Conversions — The Rev. John Richard — Spread of Catholicity — Death of Bishop Connolly — Very Rev. John Power, Administrator — Right Rev. John Dubois, third Bishop of New York — Visitation of his diocese — His labors for the cause of education — Controversies with the Protestants — Very Rev. Felix Varela — Rev. Thomas C. Levins — Difficulties with trustees — German Immigration — Conversion of Rev. Maximilian Certel — Appointment of a Coadjutor — Death of Bishop Dubois. 383
CHAP. XXV. — DIOCESE OF NEW YORK. (1888-1856.)
Right Rev. John Hughes, Coadjutor and then Bishop of New York — He overthrows trusteeism — The school question — Bishop Hughes before the Common Council — St John's College — The Ladies of the Sacred Heart and Madame Gallitxln — The Redemptorists — The Tractarlin movement, and the conversions resulting from it — The French Church and the Bishop of Nancy — Appointment of Right Rev. John McCloskey as Coadjutor — The Sisters of Mercy — Reorganization of the Sisters of Charity — Division of the diocese — Brothers of the Christian Schools — Progress of Catholicity in other parts of the diocese — New York erected into an archiepiscopal See — Erection of the Sees of Brooklyn and Newark — First Provincial Council of New York — The Church Property Bill and the discussion with Senator Brooks — Retrospect 410
CHAP. XXVI. — DIOCESES OF ALBANY, BUFFALO, BROOKLYN, AND NEWARK.
Diocese of Albany — Early Catholic affairs — Church and Mission of the Presentation at Ogdensburg — St. Regis — Chaplains at Ticonderoga and Crown Point — Rev. Mr. de la Valinidre and his church on Lake Champlain — Church at Albany — Early pastors — Increase of Catholicity — Appointment of Rt Rev. John McCloskey as first bishop — His administration — Institutions — Religious Orders — Jesuits — Ladies of the Sacred Heart — Brothers of the Christian Schools.
Diocese of Buffalo — French chaplains at Fort Niagara — Early Catholic matters — Appointment of the Rt. Rev. John Timon as bishop — The Jesuits, Redemptorists, Franciscans, Christian Brothers, and Ladles of the Sacred Heart — Sisters of Charity, Sisters of St. Joseph, Sisters of St. Bridget and of Our Lady of Charity — State of the diocese.
Diocese of Brooklyn — Catholicity on Long Island — First church in Brooklyn — Progress — Rt Rev. John Loughlin first bishop — Visitation Nuns — Sisters of Charity — Sisters of Mercy — Dominican Sisters.
Diocese of Newark — Catholicity in New Jersey — Its progress — Appointment of Rt. Rev. James R. Bayley, first bishop — Seton Hall. 451
CHAP. XXVII. (1853, 1854.)
Mission of the Nuncio, the Most Rev. Archbishop Bedini — His arrival — Plot of the Italians — Their slanders — Refutation — Death of Sassi — Reaction — Violence of the Germans — Result of his mission. 499
CHAP. XXVIII. (1854-1856.)
Reaction against the Catholics — Organization of the Know-Nothings 521
CONCLUSION 681
APPENDIX. 589
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