John XXIII
New Evangelization
Called by St. John Paul II, he hoped to reintroduce the Faith into formerly Christian regions-notably Western Europe-where religious practice had declined in the face of affluence, pleasure seeking, and the secularistic mentality arising from the rationalism of eighteenth-century Enlightenment philosophy and the scientist of the nineteenth century.
Peter Maurin
Cofounder of the Catholic Worker Movement.
Dorothy Day
Cofounder of the Catholic Worker movement.
Americanism (Heresy)
Condemned by Pope Leo XIII, this movement sought a way to adapt the Catholic Faith within American principles and modern ideas. It questioned themes like passive and active virtues, the best form of religious life, and the correct approach to Evangelization.
Catholic Immigrants (4 geographical locations)
Ireland, Germany, France, Europe
Catholic Program of Social Reconstruction
Issued by bishops in order to address the uncertainties from the NCWW
Father John Carroll
John Carroll was a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the first bishop and archbishop in the United States. He served as the ordinary of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland.
Pennsylvania (Colony)
One of the only places, along with Maryland, that Catholics were not excluded by Penal Law. Mainly quackers.
Pope St. John XXIII
Reigned as Pope from 28 October 1958 to his death in 1963 and was canonized on 27 April 2014. Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was the fourth of fourteen children born to a family of sharecroppers who lived in a village in Lombardy. Wikipedia Died: June 3, 1963, Apostolic Palace, Vatican City
St. Mary's Seminary
Roman Catholic seminary located within the Archdiocese of Baltimore in Baltimore, Maryland; it was the first seminary founded in the United States of America after the Revolution.
Gaudium et Spes
The Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, was one of the four constitutions resulting from the Second Vatican Council.
Al Smith
The first Catholic to run for the nations highest office.
John F. Kennedy
The first catholic president;
Georgetown University
The oldest institution of catholic learning in the United States.
Catholic University of America
The third plenary council is given credit to founding this school which would become the norm for Catholic education in America.
Evangelii Gaudium
a 2013 apostolic exhortation by Pope Francis on "the church's primary mission of evangelization in the modern world."
Orestes Brownson
a New England intellectual and activist, preacher, labor organizer, and noted Catholic convert and writer.
Catechism of the Catholic Church
a catechism promulgated for the Catholic Church by Pope John Paul II in 1992. It sums up, in book form, the beliefs of the Catholic faithful.
St. Augustine (Florida)
a city on the northeast coast of Florida. It lays claim to being the oldest city in the U.S., and is known for its Spanish colonial architecture as well as Atlantic Ocean beaches like sandy St. Augustine Beach and tranquil Crescent Beach. Anastasia State Park is a protected wildlife sanctuary. The Castillo de San Marcos is a 17th-century Spanish stone fortress with views of the St. Augustine Inlet. The first permanent settlement in the US and the first parish as well.
Ku Klux Klan
a secret society in the southern U.S. that focuses on white supremacy and terrorizes other groups.
"Mother" St. Francis Cabrini
also called Mother Cabrini, was an Italian-American religious sister, who founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart, a Catholic religious institute that was a major support to the Italian immigrants to the United States.
Mother Marianne Cope
also known as Saint Marianne of Molokaʻi; was a German-born American nun who was a member of the Sisters of St Francis of Syracuse, New York and administrator of its St. Joseph's Hospital in the city.
Know-Nothing Party
also known as the American Party, was a prominent United States political party during the late 1840s and the early 1850s. The American Party originated in 1849. Its members strongly opposed immigrants and followers of the Catholic Church.
John Courtney Murray
an American Jesuit priest and theologian, who was especially known for his efforts to reconcile Catholicism and religious pluralism
Isaac Hecker~Paulist Fathers
an American Roman Catholic Priest and founder of the Paulist Fathers, a North American religious society of men; he is named a Servant of God by the Catholic Church
Francis Cardinal Spellman
an American bishop and cardinal of the Catholic Church. From 1939 until his death in 1967, he served as the sixth Archbishop of New York;
Humanae Vitae
an encyclical written by Pope Paul VI and dated 25 July 1968; it re-affirms the orthodox teaching of the Catholic Church regarding married love, responsible parenthood, and the continued rejection of most forms of artificial contraception.
Pope John Paul I
born Albino Luciani, served as Pope from 26 August 1978 to his sudden death 33 days later. His reign is among the shortest in papal history, resulting in the most recent Year of Three Popes, the first to occur since 1605.
Bl. Pope Paul VI
born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini; he was notable for being the first pope to travel to the United States; He reigned during a period of great change and ferment in the Church following the Second Vatican Council.
Pope Francis
born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 17 December 1936; is the 266th and current Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, a title he holds ex officio as Bishop of Rome, and sovereign of Vatican City.
Pope St. John Paul II
born Karol Józef Wojtyła, was Pope from 1978 to 2005. He is widely known to Catholics as Saint John Paul the Great, especially in the names of institutions.
Mother Theodore Guerin
designated by the Vatican as Saint Theodora, was a French-American saint and is the foundress of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, a congregation of Catholic nuns.
St. John Neumann
founded the first Catholic diocesan school system in the United States. He is a Roman Catholic saint, canonized in 1977.
St. Kateri Tekakwitha
given the name Tekakwitha, baptized as Catherine and informally known as Lily of the Mohawks, is a Roman Catholic saint who was an Algonquin-Mohawk laywoman.
Charles Carroll
known as Charles Carroll of Carrollton or Charles Carroll III to distinguish him from his similarly named relatives, was a wealthy Maryland planter and an early advocate of independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain
Brother Andre Bessete
more commonly known as Brother André and since his canonization as Saint André of Montreal, was a lay brother of the Congregation of Holy Cross and a significant figure of the Roman Catholic Church among French-Canadians, credited with thousands of reported miraculous oil healings associated within his pious devotion to Saint Joseph.
Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk
or, The Hidden Secrets of a Nun's Life in a Convent Exposed (1836) claimed to expose systematic sexual abuse of nuns and infanticide of the resulting children by Catholic priests in her convent in Montreal.
Amoris Letitia
post-synodal apostolic exhortation by Pope Francis. Dated 19 March 2016, it was released on 8 April 2016. It follows the Synods on the Family held in 2014 and 2015
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church from 2005 to 2013. He was elected pope on 19 April 2005, was inaugurated on 24 April 2005 and resigned on 28 February 2013; original name Joseph Alois Ratzinger; Prior to his election as pope, Benedict led a distinguished career as a theologian and as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.May 29, 2015
Sacrosanctum Concilium
the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, is one of the constitutions of the Second Vatican Council.
Lumen Gentium
the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, is one of the principal documents of the Second Vatican Council. This dogmatic constitution was promulgated by Pope Paul VI on 21 November 1964, following approval by the assembled bishops
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
the episcopal conference of the Catholic Church in the United States
Dei Verbum
the incipit of the Second Vatican Council's Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation; was promulgated by Pope Paul VI on November 18, 1965, following approval by the assembled bishops
Lumen Fidei
the name of the first encyclical of Pope Francis, issued on 29 June 2013, on the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, and which was published on 5 July 2013, almost four months after his election to the papacy.
Baltimore Catechism
the official national catechism for children in the United States of America.
Nativism
the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
Code of Cannon Law
the system of laws and legal principles made and enforced by the hierarchical authorities of the Church to regulate its external organization and government and to order and direct the activities of Catholics toward the mission of the Church.
St. Rose Philippine Duchesne
was a French Religious Sister and educator. ... Duchesne was beatified on May 12, 1940, and canonized on July 3, 1988 by the Roman Catholic Church.
St. Isaac Jogues
was a Jesuit priest, missionary and martyr who traveled and worked among the Iroquois, Huron, and other Native populations in North America. He was the first European to name Lake George, calling it Lac du Saint Sacrement.
Archbishop Fulton Sheen
was an American bishop of the Catholic Church known for his preaching and especially his work on television and radio. His cause for canonization as a saint was officially opened in 2002
John Barry
was an officer in the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War and later in the United States Navy. ... He was the first captain placed in command of a US warship commissioned for service under the Continental flag.
Fr. Jacques Marquette
was born in Laon, France, on June 1, 1637. He joined the Society of Jesus at age 17 and became a Jesuit missionary. He founded missions in present-day Michigan and later joined explorer Louis Joliet on an expedition to discover and map the Mississippi River.
Vatican II
1962-65, the 21st ecumenical council (see council, ecumenical) of the Roman Catholic Church, convened by Pope John XXIII and continued under Paul VI.
GI Bill
A law passed in 1944 that provided educational and other benefits for people who had served in the armed forces in World War II. Benefits are still available to persons honorably discharged from the armed forces.
Caretaker Pope
A title of Pope John XXIII; usually an elderly pope who is expected to have a short reign.
Maryland (Colony)
Along with Pennsylvania, Catholics were not excluded by Penal Law. Settled by both Catholics and Protestants.
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
American Roman Catholic leader, usually called Mother Seton, b. Elizabeth Ann Bayley, New York City. She was the daughter of a prominent physician. ... She was beatified in 1963 and canonized in 1975, thereby making her the first native-born American saint.
Culture of Death
Basically, any way which the human life can be taken away. Was addressed in an encyclical by Pope St. John Paul II
Archdiocese of Baltimore
Became an Archdiocese with the help of Father John Carroll. Would lead to the creation of four other diocese.
Thomas Merton
O.C.S.O. was an American Catholic writer, theologian and mystic. A Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky, he was a poet, social activist, and student of comparative religion.
National Catholic War Council
Established by bishops, used to coordinate programs for military personnel.
Catholic Worker Movement
Founded by Dorothy Dav and Peter Maurin; a sometimes controversial group committed to a radical brand of Catholicism that advocated social justice, aid to the poor, and pacifism.
Council of Baltimore
Many councils were held in Baltimore (1852, 1866, 1884) mostly plenary and they helped in the expansion of the church.