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States War Department to support lndian schooling. During that same visit he persuaded the Jesuits of Maryland, including Father Pierre Jean de Smet, to begin missionary work in Missouri. One of their accomplishments in that field was the establishment of the first school for lndian boys. Mother Rose Philippine Duchesne of the Society of the Sacred Heart put to good use her years of teaching experience in a war-torn France when she and four companions came to New Orleans in May of 1818. Bishop DuBourg commissioned Mother Duchesne to open a school in St. Charles, Missouri. This was the first free school
f) Ht f,T ,r$ t rlclr visits to congregations throughout the diocese convinced him of the great need foreducation, and he prepared a missal and a catechism which were printed and distributed, although some other <strong>America</strong>n bishops objected to this. He founded the first Catholic newspaper in the United States-Ihe United Sfafes Catholic Miscellany, its main purpose being to combat attacks upon the Church by anti-Catholic factions of the press. Except for a few brief periods, it was published weekly from 1822 until 1861. Most of its material was compiled, written and edited by the bishop, who even helped tend the presses. The bishop's sister, Johanna, a woman of great talent, did much of the newspaper work. She wanted to join Mother Seton's Sisters but the bishop needed her more. A vital part of his writings concerned his people's duty to be model citizens of their adopted country. On visiting Washington D.C., in January, 1826, he was invited to address the Congress, the first Catholic clergyman to be accorded that honor. Bishop England was considered a radical by some, but actually his progressive ideas on councils that would include lay representatives of parishes as well as priests helped to avert some of the serious trusteeism problems being experienced elsewhere. His aid to the poor, the orphans, and the ill, as well as his establishment of seminaries and convents, were lauded, but others of his concerns were not so popular. Slaveowners blocked his attempts to operate a school for Negroes. 26 : I But if it was unusual for the lrish bishop of a deepsouthern diocese to be so broadminded at this early date, the lrish bishop of a northern diocese-New York-during a subsequent period was not less typical in his beliefs. They simply demonstrated the wide diversity of opinions of pre-CivilWar Catholics on what was considered a non-religious issue. Bishop John Joseph Hughes of New York, who was consecrated in 1838, the same year in which Bishop England died, felt that slaves would not be able to cope with sudden emancipation and that western colonization would lose some of the faithful because of a shortage of priests. He condemned lrish anti-slavery movements as an intrusion into politics of the United States and urged Catholic support of the <strong>America</strong>n Constitution, which at that time proscribed the activities of the Abolitionists. Of course, the Abolitionists were also violently anti-Catholic. Before that time, many had been Nativists. The Diocese of New York then included all of that state, plus half of New Jersey-about 5,500 square miles. The entire country was growing at a fantastic pace, but population growth in New York City was five times the national rate. City churches were heavily in debt and trusteeism problems arose intermittently. Bishop Hughes had inherited a monumental task. Even before ascending to the episcopate, he had, as co-adjutor, toured a number of European cities soliciting aid. Then, in 1840, he led a campaign for public support of Catholic schools and thus encountered the opposition of the New York Public School Society which eventually brought the demise of this organization, the complete secularization of public education, and the promotion of parochial schools throughout the United States.
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