Our Country, Their Peril
History of the Papacy Podcast
History of the Papacy
4.4 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we looked at Josiah Strong’s Our Country and the wider Protestant fears that shaped late nineteenth century America, especially anxiety over Catholic immigrants, cities, and the future of the nation. We then connected those ideas to the racialized hatred faced by Italian immigrants, culminating in the 1891 mass lynching in New Orleans, where anti-immigrant prejudice and public violence collided. This was a story about how religion, race, and nationalism fused in American life and helped define who counted as truly American. #HistoryOfThePapacy #AmericanCatholicHistory #JosiahStrong #Nativism #AntiCatholicism #ImmigrationHistory #ItalianAmericanHistory #NewOrleans1891 #ChurchHistory #USHistory
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| 0:47.7 | Welcome back, the History of the Papacy podcast, a podcast about the Popes of Rome and Christian Church. |
| 0:55.3 | Prepare yourself to step behind the ropes and leave the official tour of the story of the popes and Christianity. |
| 0:59.9 | I am your host, Steve Guerra, and I thank you for joining me on this journey. |
| 1:16.9 | Hey, everybody, welcome back. Today we have really an addendum episode to the series we just finished on the history of the Catholic Church and the United States from revolution to civil war. |
| 1:22.3 | And it's really a capstone, you might say, or the rest of the story for this series. |
| 1:28.6 | Today's episode is another case study based around one particular individual who lived in |
| 1:34.5 | work towards the end of the timeline we established in the main series and made his mark |
| 1:40.4 | in the aftermath of the Civil War and the Reconstruction period. |
| 1:45.3 | We'll be using the 1885 book Our America and the life of Reverend Josiah Strong |
| 1:54.0 | to illustrate the fallout of the Civil War for Catholics and the rise of a movement, |
| 1:59.7 | the social gospel movement, will really be focused, at least |
| 2:03.7 | on just this one strain of the social gospel movement that Josiah Strong was one of the |
| 2:10.2 | founders of. I think this episode deserves a little context as to why this almost 150-year-old book and a character |
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