When you look back at the history of the United States, this strand of anti-Catholicism becomes very prominent. We desire to show this idyllic idea that we were a melting pot of religious freedom, but as we have already seen, people wanted religious freedom for themselves, not freedom for others.
After you watch the video below, share at least one way in which American Catholics were discriminated against and how the Catholic Church responded to this discrimination.
I had no Idea that the Catholics have to go through all that
Yeahh Catholics did go though alot
Yeah. I think it is interesting that the religion mainly came to America by immigration.
When the Catholics were coming to America they were excluded and avoided as though they were spies.
To go to school, they pretended to be protestants and were still Catholic.
ya. wouldnt you think that they would have catholic schools in america back then for poorer children
in the irish potato famine the irish went to america and brought religion.
I find it interesting that this “immigration of Catholics” brought a lot of nationalities to America, which is cool. Was there an immigration to America of other religions besides Catholicism during this time?
The Catholics had to pretend they were protestant until they were found out. Then the Catholics got to have Catholic schools and universities
Yes there was. America became the refuge for all of the tired, huddled masses yearning to be free. (That’s from the Statue of Liberty.) However, we have not always live up to our ideals.
I didn’t know that Irish people were Catholics and that they brought some of that religion to America.
We drive by a lot of Catholic churches in St. Pete. They are very extravagant.
its pretty sad that we started this country based on freedom of religion and we couldn’t accept catholics even though they needed a refuge from th famine
catholics go through alot
catholics go through a lot of stuff