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Fathers on the Frontier - French Missionaries and the Roman Catholic Priesthood in the United States, 1789-1870 (Hardcover, New)
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Fathers on the Frontier - French Missionaries and the Roman Catholic Priesthood in the United States, 1789-1870 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Religion in America
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In the late eighteenth century, French emigre priests fled the
religious turmoil of the French Revolution and found themselves
leading a new wave of Roman Catholic missionaries in the United
States. Fathers on the Frontier explores the diverse ways these
missionary priests guided the development of the early American
church in Maryland, Kentucky, Louisiana, and other pockets of
Catholic settlement throughout much of the trans-Appalachian West.
Over the course of their evangelistic endeavor, this relatively
small group of priests introduced Gallican, ultramontane, and
missionary principles to a nascent institutional church prior to
the immigration of millions of European Catholics in the nineteenth
century.
As author Michael Pasquier shows, this transformation of American
Catholicism did not come easily. Several generations of French
priests struggled to reconcile their romantic expectations of
missionary life with their actual experiences as servants of a
foreign church scattered throughout a frontier region with limited
access to friends and family members still in France. As they
became more accustomed to the lifeways of the American South and
West, French missionaries expressed anxiety about apparent
discrepancies between how they were taught to practice the
priesthood in French seminaries and what the Holy See expected them
to achieve as representatives of a universal missionary church.
At no point did French missionaries engage more directly in
distinctively American affairs than in the religious debates
surrounding slavery, secession, and civil war. These issues,
Pasquier argues, compelled even the most politically aloof
missionaries to step out of the shadow of Rome and stake their
church on the side of the Confederacy. In so doing, they set in
motion a strain of Catholicism more amenable to Southern concepts
of social conservatism, paternalism, and white supremacy, and
strikingly different from the liberal, progressive strain that
historians have usually highlighted. Focusing on the collective
thoughts, feelings, and actions of priests who found themselves
caught between the formal canonical standards of the church and the
informal experiences of missionaries in American culture, Fathers
on the Frontier illuminates the historical intersection of
American, French, and Roman interests in the United States."
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