| A | B |
| Jean de Brebeuf | French Jesuit who was martyred in present-day New York |
| Iroquois | Native Americans in Canada and upstate New York particularly resistant to conversion to Christianity |
| Huron | Many of these native Americans converted to Christianity |
| Alfred E. Smith | Presidential candidate who lost largely because he was Catholic |
| Cardinal James Gibbons | when to Rome to argue on behalf of labor unions |
| Cardinal John Ireland | Believed one could be a good Ctaholic and a good American |
| Charles Carroll | Catholic who signed the Declaration of Independence |
| John Carroll | Established first US Catholic seminary and college |