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Definition:
Cahenslyism was a movement in the Roman Catholic Church during the 19th century
and named after Peter Paul Cahensly, a German politician who visited the United States
in 1883. Many Catholics believed that their ethnic roots and identity were being
lost in the pluralism of the United States and that this was exacerbated by the
predominance of Irish in the priesthood.
Some Europeans were also disturbed at how people with European roots were losing their cultural and linguistic heritage, and so supported the effort to have at least some Catholic churches set up along nationalist lines - ensuring that in each parish, the priest would come from the same ethnic stock as the parishoners. American bishops were aghast at the suggestion because it was diametrically opposed to the Catholic mission of creating a single, unified, universal church.
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