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St. Patrick’s Cathedral（圣巴特利爵主教座堂）is located on the east side of Fifth Avenue between 50th and 51st Streets in midtown Manhattan， in New York City. Built in a Neo-Gothic style (新哥特式) in the 19th century, St. Patricks is the largest Roman Catholic cathedral in the United States. Over three million people visit St. Patricks Cathedral each year. Prejudice against Catholics Anti-Catholic prejudice was very strong, more often taking the form of discrimination. By 1960, John F. Kennedy’s presidential election victory put to rest the catholic religion as an issue in national politics. Kennedy was Roman Catholic.反天主教的偏见是很强烈的，更经常的是，偏见以歧视的形式出现，特别是在选举。然而，到1960年，肯尼迪总统选举的胜利使天主教在国家政治中不再成为一个问题。肯尼迪是罗马天主教教徒。 More often prejudice took the form of discrimination, particularly at the polls（政治选举）. Catholic schools and the problems Catholics wanted their own schools, colleges and hospitals. They believed that these institution were needed to preserve their faith. The costs of modern education had made their schools very expensive to maintain. They began to seek some way in which they could obtain public funds to help meet these expenses. But most attempts to provide help for religious schools were declared to violate the Constitution by the Supreme Court（最高法院）. YOUR SITE HERE LOGO Unit 6 Religion in the United states Major Points: American History and Religious Liberty Protestants in the United States Catholics Religion in America I. How religious are Americans? Religion is a very important part of life in America. 76% of American adult citizens identify themselves as Christians. 15% (in 2008) of American adult population have no religious affiliation（附属，加入） – 44% in UK, 69% in Sweden（瑞典）. 51% of American believe that God created humans in their present form. I. How religious are Americans? Pennsylvania [ pens?l‘ve?nj? ]（宾夕法尼亚州）was established by Quakers（贵格派教友） Maryland（马里兰）by Roman Catholics Massachusetts（ [?m?s?‘t?u:s?ts] ）Bay Colony（马萨诸塞湾殖民地）by Puritans. Nine of the 13 colonies h