German American Catholic Zeitung

Die Deutsch-Amerikanische Katholische Zeitung: dedicated to the preservation & promotion of German American culture intersecting with the Catholic faith.

[German American Catholic Zeitung @DKZeitung]

Willkommen!

For those new to the page, the German-American Catholic Zeitung is a newsletter dedicated to researching the once vast and now vanishing German influence on American Catholic history, culture, and faith.

Gott Segne Sie!

[German American Catholic Zeitung @DKZeitung]

Regardless of issues with the Anarchist & labor movements, this was an example of Germans being targeted by institutions (especially Irish police) in a fight to better American working class life. The three men who remained in prison were later pardoned by the governor himself.

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After a bomb killed police at a rally for 8-hour workdays, 8 men (mostly Germans) were arrested on flimsy evidence. 4 hanged, 1 suicided. Scapegoated by corporations! The fight was championed not only by Rail workers but also German trades like beer and tobacco manufacturing.

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Catholic Germans played a large role in worker’s rights and fair wages. In the 1886 Chicago Haymarket Affair, German labor organizers were brutally persecuted.

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“Das star-spangled banner. H. De Marsan Publisher. No 54 Chatham Street, New York”

[Deutsch-Amerikanischer Kulturverein @DAKAmerika]

A Sunday vesper in a Brandenburg farmhouse, surrounded by the familiar furnishings of rural life.

German culture was preserved not only in monuments and great events, but in the home.

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This weekend the DK Zeitung takes a look at a gem of German Catholic culture still alive in the Pacific Northwest: Mt. Angel Abbey and brewery.

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

St. Henry, German king, head of the Holy Roman Empire, and patron saint of those who cannot have children, pray for us!

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Here’s a great new cultural organization taking shape. Highly recommend!

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A new article is live now.

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Would like to eventually do a series of spotlights on historically German Catholic Churches rather like this accounts lovely images of Lutheran churches.

[The Luther Inn @TheLuthInn]

The Chapel in the Hills in Rapid City, South Dakota.

The Chapel in the Hills is an exact replica of the Borgund stave church in Norway. It was built by Scandinavian-Americans in 1969 with assistance from the Norwegian cultural ministry. It remains a Lutheran church.

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These are two opposite fates that can await! As German Americans, we need to restore our memories of our heritage in our Catholic Churches, before it’s too late. Our language and culture was robbed from us! It’s time to reclaim our birthright.

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A tale of two German Catholic Parishes:

Despite Germans being one of the most prominent European groups in the historical American Catholic Church, today it’s only remembered for the Irish or Italians. Yet under the now extinct ethnic national system of parishes… (thread)

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This WAS Holy Trinity German Catholic in south Boston, the diocese here did nothing to support the parish’s history and even though the building was the beloved location of the Tridentine Form (Latin Mass) it was actively suppressed and turned into modernist apartments!

[John Dory @johndory1914]

Colonia Tovar in Venezuela, founded in 1843 by German settlers from Baden and the Palatinate 🇻🇪🇩🇪

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I have gotten very busy and haven’t been able to do DAKV stuff in some time. I’m hoping to start a German club at my local parish. It would be interesting to see if anyone has anything similar (an ethnic club revolving around their parish life). If so, DM me.

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Looking to do some research on the Madison County MS German American Catholics, anyone have any insights?

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