Talk:Americanism (heresy)

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The Catholic Church was NOT divided along ethnic lines. In fact, that was a major complaint of Germans- the Irish dominated them. See "The Catholic Experience" by Andrew Greeley.

This article seems to contradict itself in saying that Catholicism was the majority, then that there was a Protestant majority.

No, I think what the writer means is that Catholicism was the largest single denomination at that time, but that the (combined) protestant churches made up a religious majority of US citizens.

For your information, there were more Protestants than Catholics at the time mentioned, but there were more Catholics than any single Protestant sect (such as Lutherans, Methodists, etc.)