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The Catholic In America
By Rev. Peter J. Rahill, Ph.D.
This is one of a series of
articles reviewing the position
and experience of the practicing
Catholic in the life of the
American community from
Colonial times. The author
holds a doctorate in American
Church History has taught in
various universities, and is pres
ently Archivist and Historian
of the Archdiocese of St. Louis.
In the early years of the
19th century a Catholic could
have viewed life in these
United States with great sat
isfaction. The number of the
faithful had grown steadily,
with natural increase and con
versions aided slightly by im
migrants from the Old World.
The first bishop of the
Church in the United States,
John Carroll, had the respect
of all who knew him. In 1808
he became the first archbishop
of the country, with four new
dioceses coming into being at
the same time. The spirit John
Cotton had expressed in saying
“it was toleration that made
the world anti-Christian” 150
years before in Massachusetts
Bay Colony apparently was
fast waning.
In many places today ex
pressways and toll roads are
provided to allow transpor
tation accelerated above that
of ordinary streets and high
ways. The United States of
Jefferson's administr a f i o n
would be intolerable in this
respect, for even the large
cities were hardly connected
with a passable road. Like
wise, modern Americans
would be appalled at the
onerous restrictions against
Catholics which some states
then retained.
In general, however the
magnamity expressed by the
Founding Fathers in the Con
stitution had been infectious.
Sometimes through a single in
dividual a whole state bene
fited. The Test Oath was re-
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scinded in New York, for in
stance, because the competence
of Catholic Francis Cooper
prompted his fellow citizens to
remove the prohibition on a
Catholic holding public office.
Perhaps the “Land of the
Free” might soon be realized
on the state level as well as
in the guarantees of the Fed
eral constitution.
Occasionally the improve
ment in the position of the
faithful prompted a reaction
by those who were incensed
by any recognition of the
“Church of Rome.”
During the War of 1812
stolen property was returned
by a New York resident who
was a penitent of Father An
thony Kohlmann. When the
priest refused to testify in
court the cry went up that the
confessional was a shield for
thieves, and Father Kohlmann
was indicted. The court de
manding he answer, the priest
replied: “It would be my duty
to prefer instantaneous death
or any temporal misfortune,
rather than disclose the name
of the penitent in question.”
While all the judges were
Protestants, speaking through
De Witt Clinton the New York
tribunal ruled the priest could
not be forced to testify.
This legal recognition of
the seal of the confessional
roiled some who were in
tensely anti-Calholic. A Ai
ries of pamphlets and writ
ings spewed forth, flaying
the Church and her mem
bers. No doubt saner heads
would have prevailed and
the vituperation gradually
subsided had not a new
weight been added which
temporarily unbalanced the
scales of traditional Ameri
can justice.
Europe had been involved in
war almost from the time of
the American Revolution. The
United States had hjeen drawn
into the struggle in 1812. After
peace came in 1815 there was
an upsurge in immigration to
the United States. Though it
was a trickle compared with
the torrent of mid-century and
thereafter, the influx of people
inevitably incited hostility.
Some were unable to see the
need for additional labor for
the new factories, for opening
the West, and for internal im
provements, such as national
roads.
Most, of the newcomers were
poor and few were educated.
Yet Professor Ray Allen Bill-
ington holds that these and
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other objections were minor.
“Fundamentally,” he has em
phasized, “the aliens were op
posed because they were Cath
olics . . .” Hostility did not be
come inordinate and wides
pread at once, but the rancor
grew as steadily as an untreat
ed ulcer.
Notwithstanding, during
these years it appeared that
an improved understanding
was being reached between
American Catholics and
those not of the Faith. Sev
eral positive advances came
from Irish-born John Eng
land, first Bishop of Charles
ton. Mass had not been of
fered in South Carolina un
til 1786, and then by a priest
from a ship which had halt
ed in Charleston's harbor.
It was from this same “Pal
metto State” that the first
Catholic newspaper, “T h e
United States Catholic Miscel
lany,”. was commenced by
Bishop England two years af
ter his arrival. Never of large
circulation, >the journal never
theless circulated throughout
the country. It continued to
present Catholic teaching from
1822 until it was added to the
casualties of the War Between
the States.
In addition to the newspaper
England used the spoken 1 word
to make the Church. better
known. Recognition of his elo
quence and sincerity came in
an invitation to address the
United States Congress. On
January 8, . 1826 President John
Quincy Adams, the Senate,
and the House of Representa
tives listened to the bishop
for two and one-half hours.
With his gifted tongue Bish
op England explained Catho
lic doctrine to this assemblage
of distinguished Protestants.
Only in concluding did he re
fer to the increasing tension
and then it was to plead that
“our harmony and union here
below may produce that peace
and good will that may be em-
belmatic of our enjoyment of
more lasting happiness in a
better world.”
Partly to answer the taunts
and calumnies which had com
menced with the judicial up
holding of the seal of the con
fessional, publication of the
“Truth Teller” was commenc
ed in New York in 1825. In the
next few years more and more
bishops followed the example
of John England in vising
newspapers to answer critics
of the Church. How these ad
versaries did multiply! In ad
dition to the irritant of im
migration two other happen
ings engendered opposition
and even hatred of the Church.
One was from the first font
of anti - Catholicism in
America, England. The rigor
of many penal laws was re
laxed or removed by Parlia
ment's passage of the 1829
Catholic Emancipation Act.
By no means was this belat
ed justice unopposed in the
British Isles. Hundreds of
pamphlets were printed in
England and made their way
to the United States.
These vilifications of the
Church were distributed here;
with the ancient libels retained
they were oftentimes reprinted
with reference to the Emanci
pation Act. Over and above
the pamphlets were about 30
newspapers whose sole or prin
cipal Topic was the “Church of
Rome.”
Most infamous among them
was “The Protestant,” started
in New York in the first month
of 1830. The initial article
commented on the revival of
the Jesuits. It continued: “The
sleepless and wiley exertions
of the devotees of “The Man
of Sin” (appelation levied at
the Pope) constitute a serious
topic of scrutiny to all per
sons ... It is therefore intend
ed to issue a weekly paper
which shall be exclusively de
voted to a portrature of Pop
ery.”
The previous year the first
council or official meeting of
the bishops of the United
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This convocation had been
urgd in order to counteract
this 1 simmering cauldron of
abug. An official council let
ter to the laity pleaded for
chajty and affection among
the idherents of all denomina
tion.
T.is sentence was worthy of
ponjering by all: “To God and
not io you, nor to us, do they
start or fail; to Him and not
to u is reserved the judgment
of idividuals.” In the opinion
of the same Northwestern
University Professor Billing-
ton the exhortation was vain.
He lelieved that this council of
bisbps stimulated anti-Catn-
olieim in the national atten
tions called to the growth and
progress of the Catholic
Chuch.
Catholics were still sparse
in Tew England when a
jouwal to present the Faith
righly was first published
in B29. Most of the enthusi
asm and the financing came
fron the convert-family of
the Taylors of Connecticut.
The first issue prompted a
Proesiani organ of Hartford
to publish a caustic editorial
on 'Romanism in Connecti
cut” which ended with the
queiy: "How would it read
in history that in 1829 Hart
ford, in the State of Con
necticut, was made the cen
ter of a Roman Catholic Mis
sion?"
In an unruffled manner the
“Catholic Press” 1 ventured “it
would read exceedingly well.”
The second Bishop of Boston
was a Jesuit, Benedict Joseph
Fenwick. On his first visitation
to Maine he found Catholics
at Belfast afraid to confess
their religion because of fear
of their neighbors.
Impelled to strengthen these
faithful as well as to counter
act the assults, in the same
year 1829 Bishop Fenwick
founded in Boston a Catholic
journal. Its antecedents are in
dicated in the title, “The Jes
uit” which was not so happy a
name for retraining hostile
pens and voices. This paper
was a predecessor of the Bos
ton Pilot of today.
An 1832 quotation from the
hostile Rochester “Observer”
well demonstrates that need
for enlightenment about the
true teachings of the Church.
It read:
“A person who is condemn
ed to purgatory for 5,000,000,-
000 years can have the time
shortened, and the sufferings
diminshed, by procuring the
Pope’s order upon the devil,
who is. the jailor; and so in
timate are these two mighty
potentates, that it is affirmed
Satan never yet refused his
friend’s draft and order for the
release of a soul thus favored
by the Pope.”
It was through these Tay
lors of Connecticut that a
Catholic publication began
in far distant St. Louis. In
1832, when Deodat Taylor
offered to undertakke the
venture Bishop Joseph Ros-
ati wrote in his diary: "I
will assist him with all my
power."
At the moment the bishop
could have given no financial
aid, but soon Pope Gregory
XVI sent him $3,000 to help
complete the cathedral, com-
menceed the previous year.
From this money Bishop Rosati
diverted two hundred dollars to
establish the newspaper “Shep
herd of the Vallay.” The mag
nitude of the bishop’s approp
riation can be better under
stood when it is noted that the
Easter collection that year in
the cathedral parish was $150.
The lowering clouds of anti-
Catholicism were not to be dis
persed until a terrific storm
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nuptial mass at the Sacred
Heart Church, Rev. Terence
Kernan, O.S.B., officiating.
had been endured. If the at
tack was not repelled, the de
fenders of the Faith undoubt
edly were strengthened by the
dozen Catholic newspapers
commenced during these years.
With Jesus Christ the Light
of the World, these journals
may be regarded as 12 candles
burning in the darkness. All
the blackness was not dispell
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tokened the determined sur
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