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Eiki LC-XB42N
LC-XB42N 3LCD Projector With 4500 ANSI Lumens, Manual Zoom & Focus & XGA 1024 x 768
The Eiki LC-XB42N delivers 4500 ANSI Lumens of brightness at 85% uniformity and a 500:1 contrast ratio. The unit features an ethernet wired network for projector control and content delivery, as well as having WiFi wirel ...
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Learn Big IN37EP DLP Projector
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Sanyo PLCXT25L
PLC-XT25L XGA (1024 x 768) Multimedia Projector, 4500 ANSI Lumens, 19.2 lbs
The Sanyo PLC-XT25L Multimedia projector produces 4500 ANSI lumens with a true XGA resolution.
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SP-P400B DLP projector - 150 ANSI lumens - SVGA (800 x 600) - 4:3
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Eiki LC-XB43N
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Epson V11H335120
V11H335120 2500 Lumens PowerLite Presenter Projector/DVD Player Combo
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SAM at Comic-Con!
OK, fine I won't be there in person but check it out, I've created a new apparel design just for Comic-Con featuring head shots of Asian heroes and villains from TV, comic books and anime. But here's the best part. It's not only going to be a t-shirt, there's also going to be a hoodie version of it! They will be making their debut at the Blacklava booth along with all the other SAM designs. Take a pic of yourself at the Blacklava booth with your SAM gear, send it to me and I'll pop it up on my site!
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Kelley Suttenfield is an acoustic jazz vocalist whose lush resonance and graceful approach have captivated fans and critics alike. Her style is relaxed and patient. Every note is delivered with great care. Each phrase is thoughtful and unhurried. She emanates a comfortable assurance that invites the listener to lean in a little closer and linger a little longer. In the words of writer Carol Banks Weber (axs.com), she "breathes her own loving, sensitive and reverent persona into every lyric."
With her new CD Among The Stars (Self Produced), released in September 2014, Kelley partners with guitarist and longtime collaborator Tony Romano to explore a gentle aural landscape that is accentuated by space and delicacy. The CD features a diverse mix of songs– from Neal Young's tender anthem "Harvest Moon" to the Bart Howard opus "Fly Me To the Moon"– with simple arrangements that leave ample room for interplay between Kelley's lucent vocals and Tony's meticulous string work. Reviewer Mark S. Tucker (acousticmusic.com) referred to the voice-guitar duo as "one of the most dangerous outings in music" and went on to say that Kelley and Tony "match perfectly: spare, quiet, thoughtful, sensitive." Dee Dee Daniel (lajazz.com) echoes the sentiment: "The duo production is refreshing and shows the spectacular talents of these musicians without clutter or pretentiousness."...
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Follow this eco-friendly craft design by Marisa Pawelko to upcycle an empty drink carton into a colorful gift box. Use to package homemade gifts of cookies or other snacks. You can even use these cartons are growing kit gifts, with soil and a seed packet.
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- Rinse out the empty juice carton. Cut off the very top part of the carton using KleenEarthTM Scissors. You can begin the cut with the Blooms™ Titanium Hobby Knife. Dry the interior of the carton with a dishtowel.
- Measure and mark 3.75" up on all 4 corners. Use the KleenEarth™ Scissors to cut down all four corners stopping at the marks. Use the aluminum ruler and hobby knife to score a straight line connecting all four marks. You will be left with a cube shaped box with 4 square flaps. Fold the four flaps inward bending along the scored line.
- Now for the handles… Run a horizontal score line halfway across two opposing flaps. Cut the handle out of the top half of the flaps using the Blooms™ Titanium Hobby Knife and fold the handles upward along the scored line. Then cut off the excess carton around the handles. Feel free to use your imagination to cut different shaped handles to suit your preference.
- Use the hobby knife to cut vertical slots in each of the 2 remaining flaps for the handles to pass through. Then round the corners using KleenEarth™ Scissors. Run the handles through the slots and you're done!
- Additional Design Options: You can leave the plain carton undecorated, or you may cover it with paper, fabric and additional embellishments. You can even further customize your gift box handles and flap edges using Westcott Craftworks™ Paper Edger Scissors!
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Hot off the press: Metagenomic data contains genetic evidence of the smallest primate ever discovered, by far. The bigfoot people should apply this technique. (Mark my words, it's just a matter of time.)
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You really should make it clear to those not versed in genomics terminology that this is satire…
Is this another one of those Paluxy River cases?
I don't get it at all.
OK I'll explain the joke. In metagenomics you amplify DNA from some environmental sample – here, seawater. You don't bother culturing or identifying the microbes in the old fashioned way, you just sequence chunks of DNA from whatever is in the sample.
So this is done and the data is then put online and researchers dig through it. These clever wags found human Alu sequences which indicates that some lab technician's DNA got into the sample (e.g. in sloughed off skin cells or something) and amplified along with everyone else.
But of course they pretend like they have discovered primate DNA indicating a tiny microscopic primate swimming around in the ocean with the bacteria.
Hmm, not as funny when you explain it, as usual…
They say that "the ocean sample sequences did not yield a perfect match to the human genome." Could this be a case of "intelligent sloughing"? ;-)
Or possibly just bad dandruff
They should sequence the DNA of the researchers involved and compare them to Neandertal. If the DNA turns out to be some other primate they have to figure out who carried the sample contamination and where did they get it (could be embarassing). Maybe one of the researchers is Bigfoot.
Ron, you should read the comments too:
Kay at Suicyte Wrote:while my posting is obviously a joke, the Alu elements in the ocean metagenome are real. It appears that (at least) most of them are human contaminants, as they can be found in human genome sequences. For some reason, many of these sequences did not make it into the final assembly. At least they are not found in Ensembl.
So a database search will not find the elements in the human genome, but they are still probably all human DNA samples. Plus, PCR does throw up errors every once in a while.
Obviously we've discovered our genetic link to Sea Monkeys.
I've always known that the phrase "man is the only animal that…" is always followed by a falsehood. Now I guess it's also "Primates are the only order that…"
There is an alternative explanation here, after all these millennia of our traipsing around the oceans, having boats and ships sunk out from under us, and tons of humans drowning at sea, plankton (phyto and zoo) have incorporated alu genes into their DNA. That's right, it's sloppy lateral gene transference sex.
How shall we make it up to those poor, innocent rotifers?
SunSpiker suggests: "That's right, it's sloppy lateral gene transference sex."
Professor Steve Steve is just spreading it around again. Or perhaps this is something new in Panda evolution, swimming Pandas.
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Abu Dhabi's UNB may raise debt to repay $1B loan
UNB roadshows in Asia and Europe this week as its $1 billion loan matures in end of this year. Bank plans to open a branch in Kuwait this year.
September 26, 2011 2:31 by Reuters
Abu Dhabi lender Union National Bank , may raise medium-term debt to partly repay a $1 billion term-loan maturing in December, its bond prospectus showed.
The bank, which held roadshows in Abu Dhabi and Dubai on Sunday for the potential benchmark dollar-bond issue, ahead of investor meets in Asia and Europe, is testing market appetite for regional debt amid a charged global economic backdrop.
UNB, jointly owned by the governments of Abu Dhabi and Dubai, signed a $1 billion syndicated five-year loan facility with regional and international banks in December 2006.
The syndication was done at a margin of 27.5 basis points over the three-month London interbank offered rate.
"This syndicated loan is due for repayment in December 2011, which the issuer intends to repay from its normal cash flows and/or may partly raise medium-term liabilities, should it be required based on suitable terms and market conditions," the prospectus, dated Sept. 22, said.
Two bankers who attended the roadshows in Abu Dhabi said proceeds from any upcoming bond could be used to partly repay the December maturity.
The prospectus for the bank's $3 billion bond programme states only that all proceeds are for general corporate purposes.
UNB was not available for comment.
The bond would be the first international issue from the Gulf Arab region since Abu Dhabi-based lender First Gulf Bank sold $650 million of Islamic bonds, or sukuk, end-July.
A pipeline of bond issues from the region has been held up by global volatility, in particular euro zone sovereign debt woes, leading borrowers to adopt a wait-and-see approach and to wonder about the eventual cost.
UNB also plans to open a branch in Kuwait this year, its second foray into Gulf Arab markets, according to the prospectus. It has received approval from the Central Bank of Kuwait.
Globally, UNB has a branch office at the Qatar Financial Centre (QFC) and a representative office in Shanghai. (By Stanley Carvalho; Additional reporting by David French; Editing by David Hulmes)
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So I went to Thredo with a ski group last year, I didn't like it since I had to share my room with alot of randoms. I like my privacy.
So I was wondering, How do people normally get to perisher by them selves since driving isn't an option for me. and Where do they stay? I was looking at the website and I was wondering if there are any accommodation near the ski tubes that runs along to perisher instead of staying at perisher. I'd prefer a method of Training it from sydney, central station to a place near the ski tube where the hotel is and in the morning I could go straight to the ski tube and come back at night. I'm kinda new to this so I'd like to know anyone have a similar plan to this or any insights similar to my example. |
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Almost everyone that i know drives there. Australia isnt such a convenient place without a car!
There are snow tours (bus to/from Sydney) Sydney to Snow Bus Service & Packages https://ozsnowadventures.com.au/australia/ Ski Kaos Snow Trips: Ski Trips, Snow Tours, Snowboard Trips, Snowy Mountains Holidays, Bus to Thredbo, Jindabyne, Perisher No train options that i am aware of |
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You'll need to take the bus since you said you can't drive.
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Stress-mapping sensors for high-power adaptive micro-optics
Applied Optics, Vol. 45, Issue 7, pp. 1619-1626 (2006)
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Continuous deformable membrane mirrors are becoming more attractive for use in adaptive optics because they cause no diffraction in the reflected beam and ensure smooth and continuous phase variations across the mirrors. However, when such mirrors are used to correct a high-power incident wave front, the absorption in the coatings causes the temperature of the membrane to increase, thereby creating in-plane thermal stress due to the rigidly clamped boundaries. We present a technique to measure thermal stress in such nondeforming membrane structures. The directional stress and temperature effects are simultaneously measured and decoupled in micromachined membrane mirrors by using a group of three ion-implanted silicon resistors with different orientations. In stress measurements made with incident power, the sensors measure changes in compressive thermal stress to within
© 2006 Optical Society of America
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(010.1080) Atmospheric and oceanic optics : Active or adaptive optics
(120.6810) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Thermal effects
(130.6010) Integrated optics : Sensors
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Original Manuscript: April 29, 2005
Manuscript Accepted: August 13, 2005
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Mohd Suffian B. Zamali and Joseph J. Talghader, "Stress-mapping sensors for high-power adaptive micro-optics," Appl. Opt. 45, 1619-1626 (2006)
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Koenekamp -- who shared the Oscar for cinematography in 1964 with Joseph Biroc for "The Towering Inferno" -- will receive the ASC award at the organization's 19th annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards on Feb. 20 in Los Angeles.
Koenekamp -- whose father Hans Koenekamp received the ASC President's Award in 1991 -- broke into cinematography in 1964 on the action-spy TV series "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." He was nominated for Emmys for his work on the show in 1965 and '66.
Koenekamp was nominated for cinematography Oscars for "Islands in the Stream" in 1977 and "Patton" in 1970. His other feature film credits include "Papillon," "Billy Jack" and "The Amityville Horror."


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Pak committed to furthering peace process: Kasuri
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Pak committed to furthering peace process: Kasuri
Islamabad, August 20 These are just allegations, the Foreign Minister said of Dr Manmohan Singhs recent assertions about the presence of a terrorist infrastructure in an interview with a private Pakistani TV channel. Although the pace of the peace process was slow, progress was being made, he said, adding that several meetings had taken place between Pakistan and India on various issues, including Jammu and Kashmir. However, he stressed on the resolution of the Kashmir issue for durable peace between the two countries. About the South Asia Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA), he said Pakistan was ready to implement it by January 2006. There is no problem regarding the implementation of SAFTA on Pakistans part. However, certain details need to be worked out, he said, hoping that these issues would be resolved in the forthcoming meeting of SAARC commerce ministers in October this year. On the SAARC summit, being held in Dhaka in the wake of the recent bomb attacks there, Mr Kasuri expressed confidence that the Bangladeshi Government would host the summit amidst adequate security. Referring to the Pakistan-US cooperation in the ongoing war against terror, he said Pakistan had not handed over a single Pakistani to the USA. Mr Kasuri said Pakistanis detained in Guantanamo Bay had all been arrested in Afghanistan during the US military campaign, adding that on its part, through persistent efforts, the government of Pakistan had been successful in getting 60 Pakistanis released from there. Pakistan has so far handed over some 700 Al-Qaida linked militants, all foreigners, to the USA. Among the top ranking al-Qaeda operatives arrested in Pakistan, are Egyptian-born Ahmad Khalfan al-Ghailani, Ramzi al-Shibh, Yassir al-Jazziri, Abu-Zubaidah, Sheikh Khaled Mohammad and Abu-Faraj al-Libbi.
Man hanged for plotting to kill Pervez
Islamabad, August 20 Abdul Salam Siddiqi (35) was sent to gallows in Multans central jail in Punjab province, they said. Siddiqi was sentenced to death by a military court following his arrest in connection with the December 14, 2003, assassination attempt on General Musharraf, also Army Chief of the country. His mercy petition was rejected by the President. Attackers had tried to blow up General Musharrafs motorcade in Rawalpindi, near here, but no one was injured in that incident. However, in another attack on him on December 25, at least 16 persons, mostly his police guards, were killed and several wounded while the General escaped unhurt. Siddiqi's father Karim Bakhsh, told reporters yesterday that his son, during their last meeting, had insisted that he was innocent.
Pakistan invites Aishwarya
Islamabad, August 20 This year we intend to build up excitement in the next round of polio campaign scheduled for the last week of September by involving two polio ambassadors of the region namely Indian film actress Aishwarya Rai and Pakistans pop star Jawad Ahmed, Federal Health Minister Mohammad Nasir Khan said. He said preparations were on to hold two functions, one each in Pakistan and India, involving both stars to send a positive message, highlighting the need for saving children by completely wiping out the virus from the region. If successfully translated into reality, the event would boost confidence-building efforts between the two countries, he said asserting health has no colour, creed or religion and has a pivotal role to play in bringing the two countries closer, the Dawn reported. The decision to invite the former Miss World, who is extremely popular among Pakistanis, comes after a recent decision by the government to continue the ban on screening of Indian films and not to permit even the joint productions being planned by Pakistan and Indian film producers.
40 hurt in Bdesh clashes
Dhaka, August 20 Sporadic clashes were reported in several areas here and nearby Naryanganj city leaving some 40 persons injured. Thirty persons, including pro-strike women activists, were detained during the first half of the one-day strike. More than 8,000 riot police, armed battalion and para-military forces were deployed in the city to quell possible violence as hundreds of opposition activists took to the streets calling on the government of Prime Minister Khaleda Zia to resign for failing to stop the bombings. The ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party has rejected the demand. The strike took effect hours after Ms Zia returned home cutting short her visit to China due to the bombings that left two persons dead and around 150 injured. Amid a security clampdown following the bombings, the one-day strike, called by the 14-party alliance led by former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajeds Awami League, paralysed life in much of the country. The Communist Party of Bangladesh also separately called for a strike. No inter-district buses were operating and schools, private offices and banks were shut. The Opposition and governing sides have blamed each other for the bombings. Accusing the government of failing to crack down on militancy, Hasina has called for an international probe into the incident. Meanwhile, two persons were killed yesterday while making bombs in western Meherpur district. They were said to be on the wanted list of the police.
UK retains shoot-to-kill policy
London, August 20 We have reviewed it and we have made one or two small changes, but the operation remains essentially the same, a Metropolitan police spokeswoman said. The spokeswoman declined to detail the changes, but London police chief Ian Blair said officers would continue to use deadly force to stop possible terror attacks. The methods that were used appeared to be the least worst option (for tackling suicide bombers) ... we still have the procedure in use, he told Daily Mail.
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Coke, Pepsi out of US schools
Washington, August 20 Amidst concerns over growing obesity among children in the country, the American Beverage Association (ABA), a trade body, has said its members will only stock bottled water and 100 per cent juices in vending machines in elementary schools. Extending cooperation to the anti-obesity drive, the association said it will provide only nutritious and/or lower calorie beverages in middle schools. No full-calorie soft drinks and no full-calorie juice drinks with five percent fruit juice or less will be on sale during school hours, it said. In High Schools it will be more liberal and will provide a variety of beverage choices. However, even the members of the association will be supplied with no more than 50 per cent soft drinks. Our new school vending policy: Its all about variety, nutrition and lower-calorie beverages, the association said. Reports said Coca Cola Company, PepsiCo and Cadbury Schwepps have agreed to extend their ban on soft drinks sales to US middle schools. The companies will halt sales of full-calorie carbonated drinks during school days under voluntary guidelines announced by the ABA, they said. According to studies, over the past three decades the rate of obesity in the US has more than doubled in
pre-schoolers and adolescents and more than tripled in children in the age group of six-11 years. The most common factors cited by researchers were too much screen time television, computers and video games and too much of junk food.
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AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to clarifying when a drug offender who was presumptively released must be discharged from parole supervision
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Passed by a majority vote, three-fifths being present.
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 3-a of section 259-j of the executive law, as
added by chapter 738 of the laws of 2004, is amended to read as follows:
3-a. The division of parole must grant termination of sentence after
three years of unrevoked presumptive release or parole to a person serv-
ing an indeterminate sentence for a class A felony offense defined in
article two hundred twenty of the penal law, and must grant termination
of sentence after two years of unrevoked presumptive release or parole
to a person serving an indeterminate sentence for any other felony
offense defined in article two hundred twenty or two hundred twenty-one
of the penal law.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately and apply to persons
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tive date of this act; provided, however, that the amendments to subdi-
vision 3-a of section 259-j of the executive law made by section one of
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Catholic Church in the United States
The Catholic Church in the United States is part of the worldwide Catholic Church.
With 78.2 million baptized members, it is the largest religious denomination in the United States, comprising 24% of the population. The United States has the fourth largest Catholic population in the world, after Brazil, Mexico and the Philippines,[1] the largest Catholic minority population, and the largest English-speaking Catholic population.
Catholicism arrived in what is now the United States during the earliest days of the European colonization of the Americas. The first Catholic missionaries were Spanish, having come with Christopher Columbus to the New World on his second voyage in 1493.[2] Subsequently, in the 16th and 17th centuries, Spanish missionaries established missions in what are now Florida, Georgia, Texas, New Mexico, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. California missions occurred later. [3] [4] French colonization came in the early 18th century, with the French establishing missions in French Louisiana: St. Louis, New Orleans, Biloxi, Mobile, the Alabamas, Natchez, Yazoo, Natchitoches, Arkansas, Illinois,[5] and Michigan.[6]
The number of Catholics has grown during the country's history, at first slowly in the early 19th century through some immigration and through the acquisition of territories with predominately Catholic populations, as the former possessions of France, Spain, and Mexico. In the mid-19th century, a rapid influx of immigrants from Europe (Irish, German, Polish and Italian) made Catholicism the United States' largest denomination. This increase of Catholics was met by widespread prejudice and hostility, often resulting in riots and the burning of churches, convents, and seminaries.[7] The Know Nothings, an anti-Catholic and nativist movement, was founded in the mid 19th century in an attempt to restrict Catholic immigration and was later followed, among others, by the APA, OUAM, JrOUAM, and the second Ku Klux Klan. The integration of Catholics in American society was marked by the election of John F. Kennedy as President in 1960. Over the last 60 years the percentage of Americans who are Catholic has stayed roughly the same, at around 25%,[8] due in large part to increases in the Hispanic, especially Mexican American, population over the same period which balanced losses of self-identifying Catholics among other groups.
- 1 Organization
- 2 Clergy, lay ministers and employees
- 3 Approved translations of the Bible
- 4 Institutions
- 5 Demographics
- 6 Politics
- 7 History
- 8 Servants of God and those declared venerable, beatified, and canonized saints
- 9 Top eight pilgrimage destinations in the United States
- 10 Notable American Catholics
- 11 See also
- 12 References
- 13 Further reading
- 14 External links
Catholics gather as local communities called parishes, headed by a priest, and typically meet at a permanent church building for liturgies every Sunday, weekdays and on holy days. Within the 195 geographical dioceses and archdioceses (excluding the Archdiocese for the Military Services), there are 17,644 local Catholic parishes in the United States. The Catholic Church has the third highest total number of local congregations in the US behind Southern Baptists and United Methodists. However, the average Catholic parish is significantly larger than the average Baptist or Methodist congregation; there are more than four times as many Catholics as Southern Baptists and more than eight times as many Catholics as United Methodists.[10]
In the United States, there are 195 dioceses/archdioceses, one apostolic exarchate, and one personal ordinariate:
- 145 Latin Catholic dioceses
- 33 Latin Catholic archdioceses
- 15 Eastern Catholic dioceses (eparchies)
- 2 Eastern Catholic archdioceses (archeparchies)
- 1 apostolic exarchate (for the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church)
- 1 personal ordinariate (for former Anglicans who became Catholic)
Eastern Catholic Churches are churches with origins in Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa that have their own distinctive liturgical, legal and organizational systems and are identified by the national or ethnic character of their region of origin. Each is considered fully equal to the Latin tradition within the church. In the United States, there are 15 Eastern church dioceses (called eparchies) and two Eastern church archdioceses (or archeparchies), the Byzantine Catholic Archeparchy of Pittsburgh and the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia.
The apostolic exarchate for the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church in the United States is headed by a bishop who is a member of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. An apostolic exarchate is the Eastern Catholic Church equivalent of an apostolic vicariate. It is not a full-fledged diocese/eparchy, but is established by the Holy See for the pastoral care of Eastern Catholics in an area outside the territory of the Eastern Catholic Church to which they belong. It is headed by a bishop or a priest with the title of exarch.
The Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter was established January 1, 2012, to serve former Anglican groups and clergy in the United States who sought to become Catholic. Similar to a diocese though national in scope, the ordinariate is based in Houston, Texas and includes parishes and communities across the United States that are fully Catholic, while retaining elements of their Anglican heritage and traditions.
As of 2014[update], 6 dioceses out of 195 are vacant (sede vacante). Another seven bishops, including three Archbishops and one Cardinal, are past the retirement age of 75.
The central leadership body of the Catholic Church in the United States is the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, made up of the hierarchy of bishops (including archbishops) of the United States and the U.S. Virgin Islands, although each bishop is independent in his own diocese, answerable only to the Holy See. The USCCB elects a president to serve as their administrative head, but he is in no way the "head" of the Church or of Catholics in the United States. In addition to the 195 dioceses and one exarchate[11] represented in the USCCB, there are several dioceses in the nation's other four overseas dependencies. In the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the bishops in the six dioceses (one metropolitan archdiocese and five suffragan dioceses) form their own episcopal conference, the Conferencia Episcopal Puertorriqueña.[12] The bishops in US insular areas in the Pacific Ocean—the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Territory of American Samoa, and the Territory of Guam—are members of the Episcopal Conference of the Pacific.
No primate exists for Catholics in the United States. In the 1850s, the Archdiocese of Baltimore was acknowledged a Prerogative of Place, which confers to its archbishop some of the leadership responsibilities granted to primates in other countries. The Archdiocese of Baltimore was the first diocese established in the United States, in 1789, with John Carroll (1735–1815) as its first bishop. It was, for many years, the most influential diocese in the fledgling nation. Now, however, the United States has several large archdioceses and a number of cardinal-archbishops.
By far, most Catholics in the United States belong to the Latin Church and the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church. Rite generally refers to the form of worship ("liturgical rite") in a church community owing to cultural and historical differences as well as differences in practice. However, the Vatican II document, Orientalium Ecclesiarum ("Of the Eastern Churches"), acknowledges that these Eastern Catholic communities are "true Churches" and not just rites within the Catholic Church.[13] There are 14 other Churches in the United States (23 within the global Catholic Church) which are in communion with Rome, fully recognized and valid in the eyes of the Catholic Church. They have their own bishops and eparchies. The largest of these communities in the U.S. is the Chaldean Catholic Church.[14] Most of these Churches are of Eastern European and Middle Eastern origin. Eastern Catholic Churches are distinguished from Eastern Orthodox, identifiable by their usage of the term Catholic.[15]
Clergy, lay ministers and employees[edit]
There are 16 U.S. cardinals.
Four cardinals currently lead U.S. archdioceses:
- Daniel DiNardo - Galveston-Houston
- Timothy M. Dolan - New York
- Seán Patrick O'Malley - Boston
- Donald Wuerl - Washington D.C.
Three cardinals are not currently diocesan bishops:
- Raymond Leo Burke - patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta
- James Michael Harvey - Archpriest of the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls
- Edwin Frederick O'Brien - Pro-Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem
Nine cardinals are retired:
- William Wakefield Baum - Major Penitentiary Emeritus of the Apostolic Penitentiary and Archbishop Emeritus of Washington D.C.
- William Henry Keeler - Archbishop Emeritus of Baltimore
- Bernard Francis Law - Archpriest Emeritus of Basilica of Saint Mary Major, Rome and Archbishop Emeritus of Boston
- William Levada - Prefect Emeritus, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and Archbishop Emeritus of San Francisco
- Roger Mahony - Archbishop Emeritus of Los Angeles
- Adam Maida - Archbishop Emeritus of Detroit
- Theodore Edgar McCarrick - Archbishop Emeritus of Washington D.C.
- Justin Francis Rigali - Archbishop Emeritus of Philadelphia
- James Stafford - Major Penitentiary Emeritus of the Apostolic Penitentiary and Archbishop Emeritus of Denver
There are 454 active and retired Catholic bishops in the United States:
270 active bishops:
- 4 cardinal archbishops
- 28 archbishops
- 155 diocesan bishops
- 74 auxiliary bishops
- 6 apostolic or diocesan administrators
184 retired bishops:
- 9 retired cardinal archbishops
- 21 retired archbishops
- 105 retired diocesan bishops
- 47 retired auxiliary bishops
In 2014 the Church has 38,275[16] diocesan and religious-order priests in the United States; over 30,000 lay ministers (80 percent of them women); 17,464[16] men who are ordained as permanent deacons in the United States (a permanent deacon is a man, either married or single, who is ordained to the order of deacons, the first of three ranks in ordained ministry;[17] they assist priests in administrative and pastoral roles); 49,883[16] sisters; 4,318[16] brothers; 16 US cardinals; 424 active and retired US bishops; and 3,631[16] seminarians enrolled in the United States. Overall, it employs more than one million employees with an operating budget of nearly $100 billion to run parishes, diocesan primary and secondary schools, nursing homes, retreat centers, diocesan hospitals, and other charitable institutions.[18] Catholic schools educate 2.7 million students in the United States, employing 150,000 teachers.
Leadership in the Church in the United States falls to its bishops. They are the shepherds of particular cities and their surrounding areas, called dioceses or sees. There is one non-territorial diocese in the United States for Catholics in the armed forces. There are approximately 430 bishops and archbishops who shepherd the nation's 195 dioceses and archdioceses. Each diocese is led by one bishop, known as its ordinary. Some dioceses (usually those that are larger) also have auxiliary bishops who help the ordinary. Some also have a retired bishop still in residence. It is possible for a diocese to be temporarily without a bishop (called a "vacant see") if the ordinary is transferred to a new diocese or dies without a named successor. Dioceses are grouped together geographically into provinces, usually within a state, part of a state, or multiple states together (see map below). A province comprises several dioceses which look to one ordinary bishop (usually of the most populous or historically influential diocese/city) for guidance and leadership. This lead bishop is their archbishop and his diocese is the archdiocese. The archbishop is called the 'metropolitan' bishop who oversees his brother 'suffragan' bishops. The subordinate dioceses are likewise called suffragan dioceses. There are currently 33 metropolitan archbishops in the United States. There are 269 active Catholic bishops in the United States (4 Cardinal Archbishops, 1 Coadjutor Archbishop, 154 Diocesan Bishops, 73 Auxiliary Bishops, and 9 Apostolic or Diocesan Administrators) and there are 179 retired Catholic bishops in the United States (9 retired Cardinal Archbishops, 24 retired Archbishops, 94 retired Diocesan Bishops, 52 retired Auxiliary Bishops). Also according to the USCCB's website, there are 19 U.S. cardinals (five cardinals currently lead U.S. archdioceses, three cardinals are not currently diocesan bishops, and eleven cardinals are retired).
Some bishops are created Cardinals by the pope. These are usually conferred upon bishops of influential or significant dioceses - or upon bishops who have distinguished themselves in a particular area of service. As of April 2015[update], there are 16 American cardinals. Not all reside in the United States or are diocesan ordinaries. Four are sitting archbishops: of Boston, Galveston-Houston, New York and Washington D.C.. Nine are retired Archbishops emeritus: of Baltimore, Boston, Denver, Detroit, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Washington D.C. (two). Three work in Rome with the Roman Curia, and one is retired from service in Rome without serving as a diocesan ordinary in the US.
Approved translations of the Bible[edit]
USCCB approved translations[edit]
- New American Bible, Revised Edition
- Books of the New Testament, Alba House
- Contemporary English Version - New Testament, First Edition, American Bible Society
- Contemporary English Version - Book of Psalms, American Bible Society
- Contemporary English Version - Book of Proverbs, American Bible Society
- The Grail Psalter (Inclusive Language Version), G.I.A. Publications
- New American Bible, Revised Old Testament
- New Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition, National Council of Churches
- The Psalms, Alba House
- The Psalms (New International Version) - St. Joseph Catholic Edition, Catholic Book Publishing Company
- The Psalms - St. Joseph New Catholic Version, Catholic Book Publishing Company
- Revised Psalms of the New American Bible
- So You May Believe, A Translation of the Four Gospels, Alba House
- Today's English Version, Second Edition, American Bible Society
- Translation for Early Youth, A Translation of the New Testament for Children, Contemporary English Version, American Bible Society
According to the 2010 Official Catholic Directory, as of 2009 there were 189 seminaries with 5,131 students in the United States; 3,319 diocesan seminarians and 1,812 religious seminarians. By the official 2011 statistics, there are 5,247 seminarians (3,394 diocesan and 1,853 religious) in the United States. In addition, the American Catholic bishops oversee the Pontifical North American College for American seminarians and priests studying at one of the Pontifical Universities in Rome.
Universities and colleges[edit]
According to the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities, there are approximately 230 Roman Catholic universities and colleges in the United States with nearly 1 million students and some 65,000 professors.[19] The national university of the Church, founded by the nation's bishops in 1887, is The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.
Parochial schools[edit]
By the middle of the 19th century, the Catholics in larger cities started building their own parochial school system. The main impetus was fear that exposure to Protestant teachers in the public schools, and Protestant fellow students, would lead to a loss of faith. Protestants reacted by strong opposition to any public funding of parochial schools.[20] The Catholics nevertheless built their elementary schools, parish by parish, using very low paid sisters as teachers.[21]
In the classrooms, the highest priorities were piety, orthodoxy, and strict discipline. Knowledge of the subject matter was a minor concern, and in the late 19th century few of the teachers in parochial schools had gone beyond the 8th grade themselves. The sisters came from numerous denominations, and there was no effort to provide joint teachers training programs. The bishops were indifferent. Finally around 1911, led by the Catholic University in Washington, Catholic colleges began summer institutes to train the sisters in pedagogical techniques. Long past World War II, the Catholic schools were noted for inferior plants compared to the public schools, and less well-trained teachers. The teachers were selected for religiosity, not teaching skills; the outcome was pius children and a reduced risk of marriage to Protestants.[22]
Healthcare system[edit]
In 2002, Catholic health care systems, overseeing 625 hospitals with a combined revenue of 30 billion dollars, comprised the nation's largest group of nonprofit systems.[23] In 2008, the cost of running these hospitals had risen to $84.6 billion, including the $5.7 billion they donate.[24] According to the Catholic Health Association of the United States, 60 health care systems, on average, admit one in six patients nationwide each year.[25]
Catholic Charities[edit]
Catholic Charities is active as one of the largest voluntary social service networks in the United States. In 2009, it welcomed in New Jersey the 50,000th refugee to come to the United States from Burma. Likewise, the US Bishops' Migration and Refugee Services has resettled 14,846 refugees from Burma since 2006.[26] In 2010 Catholic Charities USA was one of only four charities among the top 400 charitable organizations to witness an increase in donations in 2009, according to a survey conducted by The Chronicle of Philanthropy.[27]
Catholic Church and labor[edit]
The church had a role in shaping the U.S. labor movement, due to the involvement of priests like Charles Owen Rice and John P. Boland. The activism of Msgr. Geno Baroni was instrumental in creating The Catholic Campaign for Human Development.
There are 69,436,660 registered Catholics in the United States (22% of the US population) according to the American bishops' count in their Official Catholic Directory 2013. This count primarily rests on the parish assessment tax which pastors evaluate yearly according to the number of registered members and contributors. Estimates of the overall American Catholic population from recent years generally range around 20% to 28%. According to Albert J. Menedez, research director of "Americans for Religious Liberty," many Americans continue to call themselves Catholic but "do not register at local parishes for a variety of reasons."[28] According to a survey of 35,556 American residents (released in 2008 by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life), 23.9% of Americans identify themselves as Catholic (approximately 72 million of a national population of 306 million residents).[29] The study notes that 10% of those people who identify themselves as Protestant in the interview are former Catholics and 8% of those who identity themselves as Catholic are former Protestants.[30] Nationally, more parishes have opened than closed.
The northeastern quadrant of the US (i.e., New England, Mid-Atlantic, East North Central, and West North Central) has seen a decline in the number of parishes since 1970, but parish numbers are up in the other five regions (i.e., South Atlantic, East South Central, West South Central, Pacific, and Mountain regions).[31] Catholics in the US are about 6% of the church's total worldwide 1.2 billion membership.
A poll by The Barna Group in 2004 found Catholic ethnicity to be 60% non-Hispanic white (generally of mixed ethnicity, but almost always includes at least one Catholic ethnicity such as Irish, Italian, German, Polish, or French), 31% Hispanic of any nationality (mostly Mexicans), 4% Black, and 5% other ethnicity (mostly Filipinos and other Asian Americans, and American Indians).[32] Among the non-Hispanic whites, about 16 million Catholics identify as being of Irish descent, about 13 million as German, about 12 million as Italian, about 7 million as Polish, and about 5 million as French (note that many identify with more than one ethnicity). The roughly 6 million Catholics who are converts (mainly from Protestantism, with a smaller number from irreligion or other religions) are also mostly non-Hispanic white, including many people of British and Scandinavian ancestry.
Between 1990 and 2008, there were 11 million additional Catholics. The growth in the Latino population accounted for 9 million of these. They comprised 32% of all American Catholics in 2008 as opposed to 20% in 1990.[33] The percentage of Hispanics who identified as Catholic dropped from 67% in 2010 to 55% in 2013.[34]
Catholicism by state[edit]
There has never been a Catholic religious party in the United States, either local, state or national, similar to Christian Democratic parties in Europe and Latin America. Since the election of the Catholic John F. Kennedy as President in 1960, Catholics have split about 50-50 between the two major parties. On social issues the Catholic Church takes strong positions against abortion, which was partly legalized in 1973 by the Supreme Court, and same-sex marriage, which has been approved in 16 states and the District of Columbia as of November 2013.[36] The Church also condemns embryo-destroying research and in vitro fertilization as immoral. The Church is allied with conservative Protestant evangelicals on these issues. However, the Catholic Church throughout its history has taken special concern for all vulnerable groups. This has led to progressive alliances, as well, with the church championing causes such as a strong welfare state,[37] unionization,[38] immigration for those fleeing economic or political hardship, opposition to capital punishment,[39] environmental stewardship,[40] opposition and critical evaluation of modern warfare.[41] The Catholic Church's teachings, coming from the perspective of a global church, do not conform easily to the American political binary of "liberals" and "conservatives."
Early period to 1800[edit]
There were small Catholic settlements in Spanish and French colonies, especially in California, New Mexico and Louisiana. Apart from the Louisiana, they had only a small role in the history of the Church in the United States.
Anti-Catholicism was official government policy for the English who settled the colonies along the Atlantic seaboard.[42] Maryland was founded by a Catholic, Lord Baltimore as the first 'non-denominational' colony and was the first to accommodate Catholics. In 1650, the Puritans in the colony rebelled and repealed the Act of Toleration. Catholicism was outlawed and Catholic priests were hunted and exiled. By 1658, the Act of Toleration was reinstated and Maryland became the center of Catholicism into the mid-19th century. By the time of the American Revolution in the 1770s. Catholics formed 1.6% of the 2.5 million population of the thirteen colonies.[43][44]
After the Revolution Rome made entirely new arrangements for the creation of an American diocese under American bishops.[45] Numerous Catholics served in the American army and the new nation had very close ties with Catholic France.[46] General George Washington insisted on toleration; for example, issued strict orders in 1775 that "Pope's Day," the colonial equivalent of Guy Fawkes Night, was not to be celebrated. Foreign Catholics played major roles, especially the Marquis de Lafayette, Casimir Pulaski, De Grasse, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, and Charles Hector, comte d'Estaing.[47]
In 1787 two Catholics, Daniel Carroll and Thomas Fitzsimons, helped draft the new United States Constitution.[48] In 1791, the First Amendment stated, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." This amendment officially granted freedom of religion to all American citizens, and facilitated the eventual repeal of all anti-Catholic laws from the statute books of all of the new American states. John Carroll was appointed by the Vatican as Prefect Apostolic, making him superior of the missionary church in the thirteen states, and to the first plans for Georgetown University. He became the first American bishop in 1789.
19th century (1800–1900)[edit]
The numbers of Catholics surged starting in the 1840s as German Irish and other Catholics came in large numbers. After 1890 Italians and Poles comprised the largest numbers of new Catholics, but many countries in Europe contributed, as did Quebec. By 1850, Catholics had become the country's largest single denomination. Between 1860 and 1890, their population tripled to seven million.
Some short-lived anti-Catholic political movements appeared: the Know Nothings in the 1840s, American Protective Association in the 1890s, and the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, were active in the United States. Animosity by Protestants waned as Catholics demonstrated their patriotism in war, their commitment to charity, and their dedication to democratic values.[49]
The bishops began at standardizing discipline in the American Church with the convocation of the Plenary Councils of Baltimore in 1852, 1866 and 1884. These councils resulted in the promulgation of the Baltimore Catechism and the establishment of The Catholic University of America.
Jesuit priests who had been expelled from Europe found a new base in the U.S. They were noted for their schools and colleges, such as Boston College, Georgetown University, and several Loyola Colleges.[50]
In the 1890s the Americanism controversy roiled senior officials. The Vatican suspected there was too much liberalism in the American Church, and the result was a turn to conservative theology as the Irish bishops increasingly demonstrated their total loyalty to the Pope, and traces of liberal thought in the Catholic colleges were suppressed.[51][52]
Nuns and sisters[edit]
Nuns and sisters played a major role in American religion, education, nursing and social work since the early 19th century. In Catholic Europe, convents were heavily endowed over the centuries, and were sponsored by the aristocracy. There were very few rich American Catholics, and no aristocrats. Religious orders were founded by entrepreneurial women who saw a need and an opportunity, and were staffed by devout women from poor families. The numbers grew rapidly, from 900 sisters in 15 communities in 1840, 50,000 in 170 orders in 1900, and 135,000 in 300 different orders by 1930. Starting in 1820, the sisters always outnumbered the priests and brothers.[53] Their numbers peaked in 1965 at 180,000 then plunged to 56,000 in 2010. Many women left their orders, and few new members were added.[54]
20th–21st centuries[edit]
By the beginning of the 20th century, approximately one-sixth of the population of the United States was Catholic. Modern Catholic immigrants come to the United States from the Philippines, Poland and Latin America, especially from Mexico. This multiculturalism and diversity has influenced the conduct of Catholicism in the United States. For example, some dioceses say the Mass in both English and Spanish.
When many parishes were set up in the United States, separate churches were built for parishioners from Ireland, Germany, Italy, etc. In Iowa, the development of the Archdiocese of Dubuque, the work of Bishop Loras and the building of St. Raphael's Cathedral, to meet the needs of Germans and Irish, is illustrative.
In 1965, 71% of Catholics attended Mass.[55]
In the later 20th century "[...] the Catholic Church in the United States became the subject of controversy due to allegations of clerical child abuse of children and adolescents, of episcopal negligence in arresting these crimes, and of numerous civil suits that cost Catholic dioceses hundreds of millions of dollars in damages."[56] Because of this, higher scrutiny and governance, as well as protective policies and diocesan investigation into seminaries have been enacted to correct these former abuses of power, and safeguard parishioners and the Church from further abuses and scandals.
One initiative is the "National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management" (NLRCM), a lay-led group born in the wake of the sexual abuse scandal and dedicated to bringing better administrative practices to 194 dioceses that include 19,000 parishes nationwide with some 35,000 lay ecclesial ministers who log 20 hours or more a week in these parishes.[57]
In 2008, 17% of Catholics attended Mass.[55]
Recently John Micklethwait, editor of The Economist and co-author of God Is Back: How the Global Revival of Faith Is Changing the World, said that American Catholicism, which he describes in his book as "arguably the most striking Evangelical success story of the second half of the nineteenth century," has competed quite happily "without losing any of its basic characteristics." It has thrived in America's "pluralism."[58]
In 2011, an estimated 26 million American Catholics were "fallen-away", that is, not practicing their faith. Some religious commentators commonly refer to them as "the second largest religious denomination in the United States."[59]
Servants of God and those declared venerable, beatified, and canonized saints[edit]
For a full list of Servants of God and other open causes, see List of American saints and beatified people.
The following are some notable Americans declared as Servants of God, venerables, beatified, and canonized saints:
Top eight pilgrimage destinations in the United States[edit]
According to The Official Catholic Directory, the following are the top eight Catholic pilgrimage sites in the United States:[60]
- National Shrine of the North American Martyrs (Auriesville, New York)
- Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Baltimore, Maryland)
- El Santuario de Chimayo (Chimayó, New Mexico, north of Santa Fe, New Mexico)
- Basilica of the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton (Emmitsburg, Maryland)
- Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament of Our Lady of the Angels (Hanceville, Alabama)
- Basilica of Our Lady of Victory (Lackawanna, New York)
- National Shrine of Saint John Neumann (in St. Peter the Apostle Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
- Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception (Washington, D.C.)
Notable American Catholics[edit]
- For living US bishops, see: List of the Catholic bishops of the United States
- See also: List of American Catholics
See also[edit]
- 19th century history of the Catholic Church in the United States
- 20th century history of the Catholic Church in the United States
- American Catholic literature
- Catholic Church by country
- Catholic Directory
- Catholic sisters and nuns in the United States
- Christianity in the United States
- Global organisation of the Catholic Church
- Index of Catholic Church articles
- List of Catholic bishops of the United States
- List of Catholic churches in the United States
- List of the Catholic dioceses of the United States
- Outline of Catholicism
- ^ http://cara.georgetown.edu/CARAServices/requestedchurchstats.html
- ^ David Neff, "Global Is Now Local: Princeton's Robert Wuthnow says American congregations are more international than ever," Christianity Today, June 2009, 39.
- ^ Richard Middleton, Colonial America (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003), 387–406.
- ^ American Horizons: U.S. History in a Global Context, edited by Michael Schaller, Robert Schulzinger, etc. (New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016,14), 33
- ^ Middleton,406–14
- ^ "History of Sault Ste. Marie, MI". 2010. Retrieved 2010-03-07. Founding of Sault Ste. Marie mission in 1668.
- ^ J. A. Birkhaeuser, [1] "1893 History of the church: from its first establishment to our own times. Designed for the use of ecclesiastical seminaries and colleges, Volume 3"
- ^ http://blog.adw.org/2010/12/is-the-bottom-really-falling-out-of-catholic-mass-attendance-a-recent-cara-survey-ponders-the-question/
- ^ https://opendata.socrata.com/dataset/World-s-Largest-Cathedrals/sfaz-u3mt
- ^ Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches 2010(Nashville: Abington Press, 2010), 12.
- ^ On July 14, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI erected the Syro-Malankara Catholic Exarchate in the United States.
- ^ Cheney, David M. "Catholic Church in Puerto Rico". Retrieved 27 July 2009.
- ^ Richard McBrien, THE CHURCH/THE EVOLUTION OF CATHOLICISM (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2009), 450. Also see: BASIC VATICAN COUNCIL II: THE BASIC SIXTEEN DOCUMENTS (Costello Publishing, 1996).
- ^ Ronald Roberson. "The Eastern Catholic Churches 2009" (PDF). Catholic Near East Welfare Association. Retrieved November 2009. Information sourced from Annuario Pontificio 2009 edition
- ^ McBrien, 241,281, 365,450
- ^ a b c d e "Frequently Requested Church Statistics". Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate.
- ^ Rocco Palmo, "Vocations crisis? What crisis?, The Tablet, 30 June 2007, 56.
- ^ Thomas Healy, "A Blueprint for Change," America 26 September 2005, 14.
- ^ Jerry Filteau, "Higher education leaders commit to strengthening Catholic identity," NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER, Vol 47, No. 9, Feb. 18, 2011, 1
- ^ Thomas E. Buckley, "A Mandate for Anti-Catholicism: The Blaine Amendment," America 27 September 2004, 18–21.
- ^ Jay P. Dolan, The American Catholic Experience (1985) pp 262-74
- ^ Jay P. Dolan, The American Catholic Experience (1985) pp 286-91
- ^ Arthur Jones, "Catholic health care aims to make 'Catholic' a brand name," National Catholic Reporter 18 July 2003, 8.
- ^ Walsh, Sister Mary Ann (28 August – 10 September 2009). "Catholic health care for a broken arm; a cast and new shoes". Orlando, Florida: The Florida Catholic. p. A11.
- ^ Alice Popovici, "Keeping Catholic priorities on the table," National Catholic Reporter 26 June 2009, 7.
- ^ "50,000th refugee settled," National Catholic Reporter 24 July 2009, 3.
- ^ Michael Sean Winters, "Catholic giving bucks national trend," THE TABLET, 23 October 2010, 32.
- ^ Albert J. Mendedez, "American Catholics, A Social and Political Portrait," THE HUMANIST, September/October, 1993, 17-20.
- ^ Michael Paulson, "US religious identity is rapidly changing," Boston Globe, February 26, 2008, 1
- ^ Ted Olsen, "Go Figure," Christianity Today, April, 2008, 15
- ^ Dennis Sadowski, "When parishes close, there is more to deal with than just logistics," National Catholic Reporter 7 July 2009, 6.
- ^ [2][dead link]
- ^ Zapor, Patricia (March 25 – April 8, 2010). "Study finds Latinos who leave their churches are choosing no faith". Orlando, Florida: the Florida Catholic. pp. A11.
- ^ http://www.pewforum.org/2014/05/07/the-shifting-religious-identity-of-latinos-in-the-united-states/
- ^ See each state's Religious Demographic section
- ^ Same-sex marriage in the United States
- ^ Economic justice for all
- ^ Rerum novarum
- ^ Catholic Church and capital punishment
- ^ Stewardship of God's Creation, Major themes from Catholic Social Teaching, Office for Social Justice, Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.
- ^ The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response
- ^ Ellis, John Tracy (1956). American Catholicism.
- ^ Richard Middleton, Colonial America (2003), 95-100, 145, 158, 159, 349n
- ^ Maynard, 126-126
- ^ Theodore Maynard, The Story of American Catholicism (1960), 155.
- ^ Maynard, 126-42
- ^ Maynard,140–41.
- ^ Maynard, 145–46.
- ^ Tyler Anbinder, "Nativism and prejudice against immigrants" in Reed Ueda, ed., A companion to American immigration (2006) pp: 177-201.
- ^ Peter McDonough, Men astutely trained: A history of the Jesuits in the American Century (2008).
- ^ James Hennessy, S.J., American Catholics: A history of the Roman Catholic community in the United States (1981) pp 194-203
- ^ Thomas T. McAvoy, "The Catholic Minority after the Americanist Controversy, 1899-1917: A Survey," Review of Politics, Jan 1959, Vol. 21 Issue 1, pp 53–82 in JSTOR
- ^ James M. O'Toole, The Faithful: A History of Catholics in America (2008) p 104
- ^ Margaret M. McGuinness, Called to Serve (2013), ch 8
- ^ a b Peterson, Tom (2013). Catholics come home. New York City: Image. p. 23. ISBN 978-0-385-34717-4.
- ^ Patrick W. Carey, Catholics in America. A History, Westport, Connecticut and London: Praeger, 2004, p. 141
- ^ David Gibson, "Declaration of interdependence," The Tablet 4 July 2009, 8–9.
- ^ Austin Ivereigh, "God Makes a Comeback: An Interview with John Micklethwait, America, 5 October 2009, 13–14.
- ^ Karen Mahoney (2011-02-23). "Why won't my kids go to church". Archdiocese of Milwaukee Catholic Herald.
- ^ The Official Catholic Directory 2009–2010 Pilgrimage Guide. (New Providence, N.J.: Kenedy and Sons, 2009), 55–63.
Primary sources[edit]
- Ellis, John Tracy. Documents of American Catholic History 2nd ed. (Milwaukee: Bruce Publishing Co., 1956).
Further reading[edit]
- Abell, Aaron. American Catholicism and Social Action: A Search for Social Justice, 1865–1950 (Garden City, NY: Hanover House, 1960).
- Bales, Susan Ridgley. When I Was a Child: Children's Interpretations of First Communion (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2005).
- Carroll, Michael P. American Catholics in the Protestant Imagination: Rethinking the Academic Study of Religion (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007).
- Coburn, Carol K. and Martha Smith. Spirited Lives: How Nuns Shaped Catholic Culture and American Life, 1836-1920 (1999) pp 129–58 excerpt and text search
- Curan, Robert Emmett. Shaping American Catholicism: Maryland and New York, 1805-1915. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America, 2012.
- D'Antonio, William V., James D. Davidson, Dean R. Hoge, and Katherine Meyer. American Catholics: Gender, Generation, and Commitment (Huntington, Ind.: Our Sunday Visitor Visitor Publishing Press, 2001).
- Deck, Allan Figueroa, S.J. The Second Wave: Hispanic Ministry and the Evangelization of Cultures (New York: Paulist, 1989).
- Dolan, Jay P. The Immigrant Church: New York Irish and German Catholics, 1815–1865 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).
- Dolan, Jay P. In Search of an American Catholicism: A History of Religion and Culture in Tension (2003)
- Donovan, Grace. "Immigrant Nuns: Their Participation in the Process of Americanization," in Catholic Historical Review 77, 1991, 194–208.
- Ellis, J.T. American Catholicism 2nd ed.(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969).
- Finke, Roger. "An Orderly Return to Tradition: Explaining Membership Growth in Catholic Religious Orders," in Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion , 36, 1997, 218–30.
- Fogarty, Gerald P., S.J. Commonwealth Catholicism: A History of the Catholic Church in Virginia, ISBN 978-0-268-02264-8.
- Garraghan, Gilbert J. The Jesuits of the Middle United States Vol. II (Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1984).
- Greeley, Andrew. "The Demography of American Catholics, 1965–1990" in The Sociology of Andrew Greeley (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1994).
- Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo. The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995). Interesting note on Afro-Creole Catholic culture.
- Horgan, Paul. Lamy of Santa Fe (Toronto: McGraw-Hill, 1975).
- Jonas, Thomas J. The Divided Mind: American Catholic Evangelists in the 1890s (New York: Garland Press, 1988).
- Marty, Martin E. Modern American Religion, Vol. 1: The Irony of It All, 1893-1919 (1986); Modern American Religion. Vol. 2: The Noise of Conflict, 1919-1941 (1991); Modern American Religion, Volume 3: Under God, Indivisible, 1941-1960 (1999), perspective by leading Protestant historian
- McGuinness Margaret M. Called to Serve: A History of Nuns in America (New York University Press, 2013) 266 pages; excerpt and text search
- McDermott, Scott. Charles Carroll of Carrollton—Faithful Revolutionary ISBN 1-889334-68-5.
- McKevitt, Gerald. Brokers of Culture: Italian Jesuits in the American West, 1848–1919 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006).
- McMullen, Joanne Halleran and Jon Parrish Peede, eds. Inside the Church of Flannery O'Connor: Sacrament, Sacramental, and the Sacred in Her Fiction (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2007).
- Maynard, Theodore The Story of American Catholicism, Volumes I and II (New York: Macmillan Company, 1960).
- Morris, Charles R. American Catholic: The Saints and Sinners Who Built America's Most Powerful Church (1998), a popular history
- O'Toole, James M. The Faithful: A History of Catholics in America (2008)
- Poyo, Gerald E. Cuban Catholics in the United States, 1960–1980: Exile and Integration (Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 2007).
- Sanders, James W. The Education of an urban Minority: Catholics in Chicago, 1833–1965 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977).
- Schroth, Raymond A. The American Jesuits: A History (New York: New York University Press, 2007).
- Schultze, George E. Strangers in a Foreign Land: The Organizing of Catholic Latinos in the United States (Lanham, Md:Lexington, 2007).
- Stepsis, Ursula and Dolores Liptak. Pioneer Healers: The History of Women Religious in American Health Care (1989) 375pp
- Walch, Timothy. Parish School: American Catholic Parochial Education from Colonial Times to the Present (New York: Crossroad Publishing, 1996).
- Weber, David J. The Spanish Frontier in North America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992). on Spanish missionaries
External links[edit]
- Global Catholic Statistics: 1905 and Today by Albert J. Fritsch, SJ, PhD
- Largest religious groups in the United States


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Wishing everyone a fabulous Memorial Day weekend! I'm going on a road trip with two buds. We're not exactly sure where we're going. My friend finished restoring his 1967 Chevelle SS a few weeks ago (pic above not his car but very similar) and invited me and another friend on the road to celebrate. Where better? We're headed south and the plan is to avoid I-95 in favor of back roads the entire way. We'll be camping out every night. The goal is to make it to the outer banks of the Carolinas. We'll see!
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16 comments:
- MAHASTIMARY said...
Hey Roxy!
I hope u guys have a wonderful time...=D
xxxx - May 28, 2010 at 12:06 PM
- Bronzi said...
- May 28, 2010 at 12:06 PM
- Pamela said...
Sounds like a lot of fun! Have a great time!
- May 28, 2010 at 12:17 PM
Just wanted to say a Chevelle SS is my dream car...I am super jealous:p
Have fun! - May 28, 2010 at 12:24 PM
- Megha said...
nice wheels! almost as spiffy as the winchester boys' impala. have a wonderful time! perhaps you'll meet some hunters along the way. hee.
- May 28, 2010 at 12:35 PM
- roxy said...
Megha - I will be a total nerd and admit the thought has crossed my mind. Several times. ;)
- May 28, 2010 at 12:47 PM
- Mal said...
Have a wonderful trip Roxy and be safe. Also, your friend has a sweet ride.
- May 28, 2010 at 12:48 PM
- Jesspgh said...
Bon Voyage and enjoy yourself!
- May 28, 2010 at 1:01 PM
Have a great trip!
- May 28, 2010 at 1:19 PM
- Gemma said...
Have a great time! Enjoy and have a safe trip!
- May 28, 2010 at 1:31 PM
- muse said...
Woohoo for road trippin'!! Have a great time and do be careful.
- May 28, 2010 at 1:43 PM
That's so cool!
Have a wonderful trip and lots of fun! Upload many pictures too!!! - May 28, 2010 at 2:02 PM
- Debbie said...
Have a nice trip!
- May 28, 2010 at 3:32 PM
- Alissa said...
Have a fun trip!
- May 28, 2010 at 6:30 PM
- Lauren S. said...
Just an FYI: I just got a notice that the Dusky Mary Janes I ordered that we supposed to be backordered until July have shipped.
- May 30, 2010 at 10:13 AM
- Lola said...
What a fun way to spend Memorial Day weekend! I hope your road trip is going well :)
- May 30, 2010 at 5:26 PM


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Released: Feb 01st, 2005
Running Time: 135
Company: TTB Productions
Lexi (I), Oniko, Jordan (I), Ellie, Goldie Cox
Critical Rating: AAA 1/2
Genre: All-Sex
In a rather tame introduction, Lexi shows off her smallish rack in a tacky butterfly bra. After a brief dialogue with the director, she gives viewers a too quick peek of her pussy. She's cute, coy and seemingly, very innocent - until she sets her sights on cock. Then her inner whore is released, and she fucks every which way she can - cowgirl, doggie, mish, reverse cowgirl and spoon.
In another above average scene, Oniko (dressed as a naughty nurse) contorts her skinny limbs into a myriad of sexual positions. The sex itself is great, but it's her flexibility that truly steals the scene.