James Waterworth
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James Waterworth (1806 in St Helens, Lancashire – 1876) was an English Catholic missionary priest.
Life
James Waterworth was educated at
Waterworth then went to assist J. Yver at Newark, where he spent over forty years as a missionary priest, still continuing his studies of the
Waterworth died in Old Hall, Newark-on-Trent on 28 March 1876.
Works
In 1834, Waterworth published a pamphlet defending Joseph Berington and John Kirk's work, The Faith of Catholics, against criticisms from the Anglican clergyman Richard Thomas Pembroke Pope ; and twelve years later he published an enlarged edition in three volumes.
He also published a translation of the canons and decrees of the Council of Trent (1848) and of François Véron's Rule of Faith (1833). His Digest of the Penal Laws affecting Roman Catholics is another work.
Waterworth's last book, England and Rome (1854), was on the relations of the popes to England.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "James Waterworth". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.