With 23 percent of the United States' population as of 2018, the Catholic Church is the country's second largest religious grouping, after Protestantism, and the country's largest single church or Christian denomination where Protestantism is divided into separate denominations. In a 2020 Gallup poll, 25% of Americans said they were Catholic. The United States has the fourth largest Catholic population in the world, after Brazil, Mexico, and the Philippines.
Orestes Augustus Brownson was an American intellectual and activist, preacher, labor organizer, and noted Catholic convert and writer.
Americanism was, in the years around 1900, a political and religious outlook attributed to some American Catholics and denounced as heresy by the Holy See.
Isaac Thomas Hecker was an American Catholic priest and founder of the Paulist Fathers, a North American religious society of men.
James Cardinal Gibbons was a senior-ranking American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as apostolic vicar of the Apostolic Vicariate of North Carolina from 1868 to 1872, bishop of the Diocese of Richmond in Virginia from 1872 to 1877, and as ninth archbishop of the Archdiocese of Baltimore in Maryland from 1877 until his death. He was elevated to the rank of cardinal in 1886.
George Peter Alexander Healy was an American portrait painter. He was one of the most prolific and popular painters of his day, and his sitters included many of the eminent personages of his time. Born in Boston, he studied in Europe, and over his lifetime had studios in Paris and Chicago.
William Laurel Harris was an American muralist, educator, editor, and arts organizer.
The Paulist Fathers, officially named the Missionary Society of Saint Paul the Apostle, abbreviated CSP, is a Catholic society of apostolic life of Pontifical Right for men founded in New York City in 1858 by Isaac Hecker in collaboration with George Deshon, Augustine Hewit, and Francis A. Baker.
Walter Elliott (1842–1928) was an American Roman Catholic priest and missionary, who authored the controversial 1891 book Life of Father Hecker, a biography of the missionary Isaac Hecker, which sparked the Americanism controversy. Elliott was a graduate of Notre Dame, successful attorney, and Civil War veteran before joining the Paulists.
Francis Asbury Baker was an American Catholic priest, missionary, and social worker, known as one of the founders of the Paulist Fathers in 1858.
The Old Cathedral of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception is a proto-cathedral and parish of the Roman Catholic Church located at 660 California Street at the corner of Grant Avenue in the Chinatown neighborhood of San Francisco, California. It was built in 1854 in the Gothic Revival style, and was made a Designated San Francisco Landmark on April 11, 1968.
Augustine Francis Hewit was an American Redemptorist priest, and second Superior General of the Paulist Fathers.
George Deshon was an American Paulist Father.
In 1977 the Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle established the US "Paulist National Catholic Evangelization Association" with the stated mission of equipping Catholics to evangelize, that is, to preach the gospel. As of 2009 the association is known as Paulist Evangelization Ministries.
John Augustine Ryan (1869–1945) was an American Catholic priest who was a noted moral theologian and advocate of social justice. Ryan lived during a decisive moment in the development of Catholic social teaching within the United States. The largest influx of immigrants in America's history, the emancipation of American slaves, and the industrial revolution had produced a new social climate in the early twentieth century, and the Catholic Church faced increasing pressure to take a stance on questions of social reform.
Edward Joseph Hanna was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as archbishop of San Francisco from 1915 to 1935.
St. Paul's College in Washington, D.C. was the house of formation for the Paulist Fathers, founded by Isaac Hecker. As the home of Paulists who served the local and national Catholic Church through a variety of apostolates including education, evangelization, ecumenism, and mass communications, the College was an associate member of the Washington Theological Consortium.
The New York Freeman (1849–1918) was an American Catholic weekly newspaper in New York City.
American Catholic literature emerged in the early 1900s as its own genre. Catholic literature is not exclusively literature written by Catholic authors or about Catholic things, but rather Catholic literature is "defined [...] by a particular Catholic perspective applied to its subject matter."
The American Catholic Quarterly Review was an American quarterly magazine of literature, politics, culture, religion, and the arts, founded in 1876 by James A. Corcoran and Herman J. Heuser. The journal was conceived as a forum for public discussion and a tool for elite education. The magazine ceased publication in 1924.
