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Evangelizing A Nation: Catholic Priests In America, Christopher J. Wild
Evangelizing A Nation: Catholic Priests In America, Christopher J. Wild
The Review: A Journal of Undergraduate Student Research
According to the most recent statistics provided by the American bishops, there are an astonishing seventy million Catholics who call the United States home. Five hundred years ago, there was not a single Roman Catholic to be found anywhere in this vast expanse of forests, prairies, and mountains. (Moreover, presumably no one living at that time in what is now the United States had any knowledge of Jesus Christ, for the episcopacy of Erik Gnupsson in twelfth century Greenland hardly resulted in any evangelization of the Christian faith in the western hemisphere.) As the European authorities competed to establish colonies …