Americanism (heresy)
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Americanism was, in the years around 1900, a political and religious outlook attributed to some American Catholics and denounced as heresy by the Holy See.
Isaac Hecker
Pope Leo XIII
James Gibbons, cardinal archbishop of Baltimore
Catholic Church in the United States
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With 23 percent of the United States' population as of 2018, the Catholic Church is the country's second-largest religious grouping after Protestantism, and the country's largest single church or Christian denomination where Protestantism is divided into separate denominations. In a 2020 Gallup poll, 25% of Americans said they were Catholic. The United States has the fourth-largest Catholic population in the world, after Brazil, Mexico, and the Philippines.
Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.
St. Francis Xavier Church in Compton, Maryland, the oldest Catholic church in continuous operation from the Thirteen Colonies
John Carroll, Archbishop of Baltimore, the first Catholic bishop in the United States. His cousin, Charles Carroll, was a Founding Father and one of 56 founders to sign the Declaration of Independence.
18th century New Spanish Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine