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Welcome back to the History of the Papersie podcast, a podcast about the Popes of Rome and Christian Church.

Prepare yourself to step behind the ropes and leave the official tour of the story of the popes and Christianity.

I am your host, Steve Guerra, and I thank you for joining me on this journey.

Hey, everybody, welcome back. The topic of today's episode is immigration and nativism.

Immigration, migration, and nativism have all been constant currents running through the story of the United States, from its founding to today. The United States is, in so many ways, a nation of immigrants.

With the exception, of course, of the Native American peoples who have lived on this land

for thousands of years, nearly everyone else came here from somewhere else.

The history of those native peoples and their relationship with the Catholic Church

as a story we'll explore in later episodes. Immigration to the United States has traditionally

come in waves, and this was certainly true in the period leading up to the U.S. Civil War.

Many Catholics found themselves living within the borders

of the very young United States, not because they moved here, but because the borders

themselves changed around them. Religiously, all of these different people could be grouped

under the broad label of Catholic.

Protestants of the time often referred to them as papists or Romanists, but in reality,

these Catholics came from a wide range of nations, languages, and cultures.

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