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Detail from the official White House portrait of John F. Kennedy, the first Catholic president of the United States. By Aaron Shikler, 1969. Public Domain. Wikimedia Commons

Welcome to this subject guide on Religion (specifically Catholicism) and Citizenship. This topic pertains broadly to the relationship between religion and national or ethnic identity. The term could be related on the one hand, for example, to distinctive ethnic experiences and practices of Catholicism, and on the other, to anti-Catholic materials which at least tacitly question the national loyalty of Catholics. It will connect the user with electronic collections, to links that will search the Catholic Portal for relevant materials, to official Church teaching, and additional reliable information on Catholics as citizens from the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University. We hope you will find this guide useful.

Online Materials from the American Catholic History Classroom

American Catholics and Nazi-Antisemitism: Sheehy, Coughlin, and the 1938 CUA Kristallnacht Broadcast
This website features digitized primary documents and audio from the American Catholic History Center and Catholic University Archives related to U.S. Catholic responses to the Nazi regime in 1930s Germany.
Catholics and Politics
This website features previously unavailable audio and documents related to the presidential campaign of 1936 and the involvement of each priest in that campaign.
Helping Women Achieve their Full Stature: Feminism and the NCCW
This website presents information on how the women of NCCW "tried on many new ways of looking at the world in the decade following the [Second Vatican] Council."
Catholics and Social Security
This site offers a documentary history and supporting educational materials illuminative of the collaboration between administration and government officials and leadership figures in the National Conference of Catholic Charities.
Catholic People in American History
How did Catholicism come to the Americas? How did it sustain its membership over time? What was the relationship between the pope and American Catholics, or American Catholics and non-Catholic Americans? How did the American Catholic people respond to the clergy? These questions are critical to understanding the way Catholic people created a distinctively Catholic-American identity and experience. This website presents information on how this was done.
American Catholic Women's Participation in 20th Century World Wars
The materials presented here depict how Catholic women’s organizations supported the war effort during World War I and World War II using collections from the American Catholic History Center and Catholic University Archives.

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Ethnic Groups in the U.S.