American Catholicism

School Children Learning from a Nun (US)

From the mid-nineteenth century, Catholics saw American public schools as having a Protestant bias and began to create a strong Catholic school system (Photo credit: Courtesy of National Catholic Educational Association)

Elizabeth Anne Seton (Mount Saint Vincent, NY)

Elizabeth Anne Seton founded the Sisters of Charity in the early nineteenth century and was canonized in 1975 as the first American-born Roman Catholic saint (Photo: Courtesy of Mt. St. Vincent Archives)