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Our Sunday Visitor wrote an overview on what you’ll see on “God in America,” a three-part series debuting on PBS tonight. In short, it said topics relating to Catholics are sparse in “fine overview” of how faith has shaped the American character.

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The coproduction from “American Experience” and “Frontline” focuses in large part on religious dissidents, the article said. Under the “Catholic contributions?” subhead, it said:

Catholic viewers may be disappointed the series does not feature more episodes about them. There is a segment about Archbishop John Hughes of New York, who created the Catholic school system in his diocese as an alternative to public schools where anti-Catholic textbooks and Protestant religious instruction were part of the curriculum. There is also a vignette about New Mexico’s Pueblo Revolt of 1680, in which more than 30 Franciscan missionary priests were killed by the Pueblo Indians.

If the producers were looking for a Catholic topic, they might have examined why Catholics, who were forbidden to practice their religion in 11 of the 13 colonies and whose priests lived under a death sentence, gave their support to the American Revolution.

Despite that, the article applauded the production value which mixes historic paintings, photographs and artifacts with on-site footage, re-enactments and interviews with academic types well-versed in America’s religious history.

Here’s a decent preview of what you’ll see starting tonight on PBS:

(shorter version here)