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The Catholic Church in England and Wales (
This unbroken communion with the Holy See lasted until
For 250 years, the government forced members of the pre-Reformation Catholic Church known as
At the 2001 United Kingdom census, there were 4.2 million Catholics in England and Wales, some 8% of the population. One hundred years earlier, in 1901, they represented only 4.8% of the population. In 1981, 8.7% of the population of England and Wales were Catholic.[13] In 2009, post the 2004 enlargement of the European Union, when thousands of Central Europeans (mainly heavily Catholic Poles, Lithuanians, Slovakians and Slovenians) came to England, an Ipsos Morioka poll found that 9.6%, or 5.2 million people, were Catholics in England and Wales.[14][15] In the 2021 census, the Christian population (of Catholic, Anglican, nonconformists, and unaffiliated Christians together) dropped to 46% (about 27.6 million people, the majority of whom were not of the established church).[16][17][18]
In North West England one in five are Catholic,[19] a result of large-scale Irish migration in the nineteenth century as well as the high number of English recusants in Lancashire.[20][21]
History
Roman Britons and early Christianity
Much of
Eventually, the position of the Roman authorities on Christianity moved from hostility to toleration with the
Conversion of the Anglo-Saxons
During the Heptarchy, the English people (referred to as the Anglo-Saxons) were converted to Christianity from Anglo-Saxon paganism, from two main directions:
- Iona, through its subordinate house Lindisfarne (founded by Aidan of Lindisfarne), linking the Northumbrian element of the Church (and subsequently Mercia through Chad of Mercia) to the culture of the Church in Ireland; and
- in the south, first through Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum.
The
During this time of mission, Rome looked to challenge some different customs which had been retained in isolation by the Celts (the Gaels and the Britons), due in part to their geographical distance from the rest of Western Christendom. Of particularly importance was the
Norman Conquest of England and part of Wales
Control of the English Church passed from the Anglo-Saxons to the
During mediaeval times, England and Wales were part of western Christendom: monasteries and convents, such as those at
Pilgrimage was a prominent feature of mediaeval Catholicism, and England and Wales were amply provided with many popular sites of pilgrimage. The village of
An Englishman, Nicholas Breakspear, became
Tudor period and Catholic resistance
The dynamics of the pre-Reformation bond between the Catholic Church in England and the Apostolic See remained in effect for nearly a thousand years. That is, there was no doctrinal difference between the faith of the English and the rest of Catholic Christendom, especially after calculating the date of Easter at the
When
In 1534, during the reign of Henry VIII, the English church became independent of the Holy See for a period owing to "continued" innovations with Henry declaring himself its Supreme Head.
All through 1536–41, Henry VIII engaged in a large-scale
The 1547 to 1553 reign of the boy
Reign of Mary I
Under Queen Mary I, in 1553, the fractured and discordant English Church was linked again to continental Catholicism and the See of Rome through the doctrinal and liturgical initiatives of Reginald Pole and other Catholic reformers.[48][49] Mary was determined to return the whole of England to the Catholic faith. This aim was not necessarily at odds with the feeling of a large section of the populace; Edward's Protestant reformation had not been well received everywhere, and there was ambiguity in the responses of the parishes.[50]
Mary also had some powerful families behind her. The Jerningham family together with other East Anglian Catholic families such as the Bedingfelds, Waldegraves, Rochesters together with the Huddlestons of
For centuries after, the idea of another reconciliation with Rome was linked in many English people's minds with a renewal of Mary's fiery stakes. Ultimately, her alleged harshness was a success but at the cost of alienating a fairly large section of English society which had been moving away from some traditional Catholic devotional practices. These English were neither Calvinist nor Lutheran, but certainly leaning towards
Reign of Elizabeth I
When Mary died and
During the first years of her reign from 1558 to 1570 there was relative leniency towards Catholics who were willing to keep their religion private, especially if they were prepared to continue to attend their parish churches. The wording of the official prayer book had been carefully designed to make this possible by omitting aggressively "heretical" matter, and at first many English Catholics did in fact worship with their Protestant neighbours, at least until this was formally forbidden by Pope Pius V's 1570 bull, Regnans in Excelsis, which also declared that Elizabeth was not a rightful queen and should be overthrown. It formally excommunicated her and any who obeyed her and obliged all Catholics to attempt to overthrow her.[60]
In response, the "Act to retain the Queen's Majesty's subjects in their obedience", passed in 1581, made it high treason to reconcile anyone or to be reconciled to "the Romish religion", or to procure or publish any papal Bull or writing whatsoever. The celebration of Mass was prohibited under penalty of a fine of two hundred marks and imprisonment for one year for the celebrant, and a fine of one hundred marks and the same imprisonment for those who heard the Mass. This act also increased the penalty for not attending the Anglican service to the sum of twenty pounds a month, or imprisonment until the fine was paid or until the offender went to the Protestant Church. A further penalty of ten pounds a month was inflicted on anyone keeping a schoolmaster who did not attend the Protestant service. The schoolmaster himself was to be imprisoned for one year.[61]
England's wars with Catholic powers such as France and Spain, culminated in the attempted invasion by the
The climax of Elizabeth's anti-Catholic legislation was in 1585, two years before the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, with the
The last of Elizabeth's anti-Catholic laws was the Act for the Better Discovery of Wicked and Seditious Persons Terming Themselves Catholics, but Being Rebellious and Traitorous Subjects. Its effect was to prohibit all
However, Elizabeth did not believe that her anti-Catholic policies constituted religious persecution, though "she strangled, disembowelled, and dismembered more than 200" English Catholics
Because of the persecution in England, Catholic priests were trained abroad at the English College in Rome, the English College in Douai, the English College at Valladolid in Spain, and at the English College in Seville. Given that Douai was located in the Spanish Netherlands, part of the dominions of Elizabethan England's greatest enemy, and Valladolid and Seville in Spain itself, they became associated in the public eye with political as well as religious subversion. It was this combination of nationalistic public opinion, sustained persecution, and the rise of a new generation which could not remember pre-Reformation times and had no pre-established loyalty to Catholicism, that reduced the number of Catholics in England during this period – although the overshadowing memory of Queen Mary I's reign was another factor that should not be underestimated (the population of the country was 4.1 million). Nevertheless, by the end of Elizabeth's reign probably 20% of the population were still Catholic, with 10% dissident "Puritan" Protestants and the remainder more or less reconciled to the Anglican church as "parish Anglicans". By then most English people had largely been de-catholicised but were not Protestant.[71] Religious "uniformity," however, "was a lost cause," given the presence of Dissenting, Nonconformist Protestants, and Catholic minorities.[72]
Stuart period
The reign of
The reign of
While Charles remained firmly Protestant, he was personally drawn towards a consciously "High Church" Anglicanism. This affected his appointments to Anglican bishoprics, in particular the appointment of William Laud as Archbishop of Canterbury. How many Catholics and Puritans there were is still open to debate.[75][76]
Religious conflict between Charles and other "High" Anglicans and
The restoration of the monarchy under
Charles' brother and heir James, Duke of York (later
James earnestly tried "to improve the position of his fellow Catholics" and did so "in such an inept way that he aroused the fears of both the Anglican establishment and the Dissenters.[81] In the process, he encouraged converts like the poet John Dryden, who wrote "The Hind and the Panther", to celebrate his conversion.[82][83] Protestant fears mounted as James placed Catholics in the major commands of the existing standing army, dismissed the Protestant Bishop of London and dismissed the Protestant fellows of Magdalen College and replaced them with a wholly Catholic board. The last straw was the birth of a Catholic heir in 1688, portending a return to a pre-Reformation Catholic dynasty. Observing this was Princess Mary, James' daughter by his first wife, and her husband "'Stadhouder Willem,' whose wife stood to lose her future thrones through this new arrival."[84]
William and Mary and the Catholic Church
In what came to be known as the
James fled into exile, and with him many Catholic nobility and gentry. The
Recusants and moves towards Emancipation
The years from 1688 to the early 19th century were in some respects the lowest point for Catholicism in England. Deprived of their dioceses, four
The harsh laws and the live-and-let-live reality were two very different things. This world was divided into the upper classes, the aristocracy and the gentry, and what were literally the working classes. Undoubtedly, the survival of Catholicism in the past [up until 1829] was due to the dogged, but hopefully inconspicuous, protection provided by the former to the latter. Country neighbours, Anglicans and Catholics, lived amicably together in keeping with this "laissez-faire" reality.[96]
There was no longer, as once in Stuart times, any notable Catholic presence at court, in public life, in the military or professions. Many of the Catholic nobles and gentry who had preserved on their lands among their tenants small pockets of Catholicism had followed James into exile, and others, at least outwardly in cryptic fashion, conformed to Anglicanism, meaning fewer such Catholic communities survived intact. For "obvious reasons", Catholic aristocracy at this time was heavily intermarried. Their great houses, however, still had chapels called "libraries", with priests attached to these places (shelved for books) who celebrated Mass, which worship was described in public as "Prayers".
The introduction of Vicars Apostolic or titular bishops in 1685 was very important at the time and ought not be misprized. For example, when John Leyburn, formerly of the English College, Douai, was appointed as Vicar Apostolic of England, it was the first time a Catholic bishop had been present in England for nearly sixty years. Up until that time, Archpriests were overseeing the church.
In Leyburn's combined tour north and visitation to administer Confirmation, in 1687, some 20,859 Catholics received the sacrament.
Around this time, in 1720,
In 1778 the
In 1837,
In a 2009 study of the English Catholic community, 1688–1745, Gabriel Glickman notes that Catholics, especially those whose social position gave them access to the courtly centres of power and patronage, had a significant part to play in 18th-century England. They were not as marginal as one might think today. For example, Alexander Pope was not the only Catholic whose contributions (especially, Essays on Man) help define the temper of an early English Enlightenment. In addition to Pope, Glickman notes a Catholic architect, James Gibbs, who built Radcliffe Camera[115] and returned baroque forms to the London skyline, and a Catholic composer, Thomas Arne, who composed "Rule Britannia". According to reviewer Aidan Bellenger, Glickman also suggests that "rather than being the victims of the Stuart failure, 'the unpromising setting of exile and defeat' had 'sown the seed of a frail but resilient English Catholic Enlightenment'."[116] University of Chicago historian Steven Pincus likewise argues in his book, 1688: The First Modern Revolution, that Catholics under William and Mary and their successors experienced considerable freedom.[117]
Nineteenth century and Irish immigration
After this moribund period, the first signs of a revival occurred as thousands of French Catholics fled France during the French Revolution. The leaders of the Revolution were virulently anti-Catholic, even singling out priests and nuns for summary execution or massacre, and England was seen as a safe haven from Jacobin violence. Also around this time (1801), a new political entity was formed, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, which merged the Kingdom of Great Britain with the Kingdom of Ireland, thus increasing the number of Catholics in the new state. Pressure for abolition of anti-Catholic laws grew, particularly with the need for Catholic recruits to fight in the Napoleonic Wars.
Despite the resolute opposition of
In the 1840s and 1850s, especially during the
Re-established dioceses
At various points after the 16th century hopes have been entertained by many English Catholics that the "reconversion of England" was at hand. Additionally, with the arrival of Irish Catholic migrants (Ireland was part of the UK until the partition, in 1922), some considered that a "second spring" of Catholicism across Britain was developing. Rome responded by
The re-established Catholic episcopacy specifically avoided using places that were sees of the Church of England, in effect temporarily abandoning the titles of Catholic dioceses before Elizabeth I because of the
Converts
A proportion of the Anglicans who were involved in the Oxford Movement or "Tractarianism" were ultimately led beyond these positions and converted to the Catholic Church, including, in 1845, the movement's principal intellectual leader, John Henry Newman. More new Catholics would come from the Anglican Church, often via high Anglicanism, for at least the next hundred years, and something of this continues.[128]
As anti-Catholicism declined sharply after 1910, the church grew in numbers, grew rapidly in terms of priests and sisters, and expanded their parishes from inner city industrial areas to more salubrious suburbs. Although underrepresented in the higher levels of the social structure, apart from a few old aristocratic Catholic families, Catholic talent was emerging in journalism, literature, the arts, and diplomacy.
A striking development was the surge in highly publicised conversion of intellectuals and writers including most famously
was also a notable convert during the early 20th century.Prominent cradle Catholics included the film director
Contemporary English Catholicism
English Catholicism continued to grow throughout the first two-thirds of the 20th century, when it was associated primarily with elements in the English intellectual class and the ethnic Irish population. Numbers attending Mass remained very high in contrast with some Protestant churches (though not the Church of England).[136] Clergy numbers, which began the 20th century at under 3,000, reached a high of 7,500 in 1971.[13]
By the latter years of the twentieth century low numbers of vocations also affected the church[137] with ordinations to the priesthood dropping from the hundreds in the late 20th century into the teens in 2006–2011 (16 in 2009 for example) and a recovery into the 20s thereafter, with a prediction for 2018 of 24.[138][139][140]
As in other English-speaking countries such as the United States and Australia, the movement of Irish Catholics out of the working-class into the middle-class suburban mainstream often meant their assimilation with broader, secular English society and loss of a separate Catholic identity. The
Since the
The spirit of ecumenism fostered by Vatican II resulted in 1990 with the Catholic Church in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland joining
Currently, along with the 22
Social action
The Church's principles of social justice influenced initiatives to tackle the challenges of poverty and social inclusion. In Southampton, Fr Pat Murphy O'Connor founded the St Dismas Society as an agency to meet the needs of ex-prisoners discharged from Winchester prison. Some of St Dismas Society's early members went on to help found the Simon Community in Sussex then in London. Their example gave new inspiration to other clergy, such as the Revd Kenneth Leech (CofE) of St Anne's Church, Soho, who helped found the homeless charity Centrepoint, and the Revd Bruce Kenrick (Church of Scotland) who helped found the homeless charity Shelter. In 1986 Cardinal Basil Hume established the Cardinal Hume Centre[155] to work with homeless young people, badly housed families and local communities to access accommodation, support and advice, education, training and employment opportunities.
In 2006 Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor instituted an annual Mass in Support of Migrant Workers[156] at Westminster Cathedral in partnership with the ethnic chaplains of Brentwood, Southwark and Westminster.
Controversies
Adoption
On 3 November 2016, John Bingham, Head of Media at the Church of England, reported in The Daily Telegraph that Cardinal Vincent Nichols officially acknowledged that the Catholic Church in England and Wales had pressured young unmarried mothers in the country to put their children up for adoption in agencies linked to the Catholic Church throughout the decades following World War II and offered an apology.[157]
Child abuse
In November 2020 the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse reported that between 1970 and 2015, the church in England and Wales had received more than 900 complaints involving more than 3,000 instances of child sexual abuse, made against almost 1,000 individuals, including priests, monks and church associates. In light of such serious and persistent allegations over decades, the Inquiry had hoped to gain the cooperation of the Vatican. In the event its repeated requests were thwarted. As a result, there have been calls for resignations of prelates in leadership roles both from victims, their families and supporters. The inquiry has not spared criticism of the church for prioritising its reputation over the suffering of victims. Cardinal Nichols was singled out in the inquiry report for lack of personal responsibility, or of compassion towards victims. However he has indicated he would not be resigning as he was "determined to put it right".[158][159] In another article by Pepinster, she notes that the late Cardinal Basil Hume was "remembered for showing empathy to survivors but offered only pastoral care and kindness."[160]
Organisation
The Catholic Church in England and Wales has five
The Catholic bishops in England and Wales come together in a collaborative structure known as the
Although the bishops of the restored hierarchy were obliged to take new titles, such as that of Westminster, they saw themselves very much in continuity with the pre-Reformation Church. Westminster in particular saw itself as the continuation of Canterbury, hence the similarity of the
Hierarchy
Chaplaincies
Youth services
Many dioceses operate specialist youth service provision, such as the Youth Service of the Diocese of Leeds,[166] the Youth Ministry Team in the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle,[167] and the Youth Service in the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton.[168]
Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham
In October 2009, following closed-circuit talks between some Anglicans and the
Eastern Catholic Churches
There exists the
The Maronite Church in the United Kingdom is under the jurisdiction of the Maronite Eparchy of Europe. The
There are also Catholic chaplains involved in the ministries of Eastern Catholic Churches (of Eritrean, Chaldean, Syriac, Syro-Malabar, Syro-Malankara, and Melkite communities). For information about the Syro-Malabar chaplaincy within the Diocese of Westminster in London, see Syro-Malabar Catholic Church of London.
Demography
General statistics
At the 2001 United Kingdom census, there were 4.2 million Catholics in England and Wales, some 8.3 per cent of the population. One hundred years earlier, in 1901, they represented only 4.8 per cent of the population (approximately 1.8 million people). as well as the high number of English recusants in Lancashire.
Migration from Ireland in the 19th and 20th centuries and more recent Eastern European migration have significantly increased the numbers of Catholics in England and Wales, although Pew Research data and stats of 2018 point to other factors at work. According to Pew researchers, 19% of UK adults identify as Catholic.[183] The Eastern European members are mainly from Poland, with smaller numbers from Lithuania, Latvia, and Slovakia. According to the World Factbook as of 2020[update], the ethnic/racial composition of UK was "white": 87.2%; "non-white": 12.8%.[184] A 2022 report, however, noted the "white" population of England and Wales had dropped from 86% in 2011 to 81.7% in 2021.[185]
Polish Catholic immigration
The spiritual needs of migrating Catholic Poles in England and Wales over the past two centuries have been tied inexorably to the changing geo-political fate of their homeland. Most of the arrivals up to the 21st century were escaping political and other repressions. They were not all Catholics.
On the
History
Polish-speaking Catholics first arrived in the United Kingdom in some numbers after the 19th century national
The
After
After
In 1948, following a visit to Poland the previous year for talks with cardinal Hlond, and after consulting with the Catholic episcopate of England and Wales, Cardinal
On the pastoral front, the temporary Polish parish hosted in
Anomalous Polish "parishes"
Since the original agreement between the English and Polish church hierarchies in 1948, whenever a Polish Catholic community emerges within England and Wales, the vicar delegate appoints a Polish priest to organise a local branch of the Polish Catholic Mission. A priest thus appointed is the Catholic version of a "
In December 2007, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor said: "I'm quite concerned that Poles are creating a separate Church in Britain – I would want them to be part of the Catholic life of this country. I would hope those responsible for the Polish Church here, and the Poles themselves, will be aware that they should become a part of local parishes as soon as possible when they learn enough of the language." Mgr Kukla stressed that the Polish Catholic Mission continues to have a "good relationship" with the hierarchy in England and Wales and said "Integration is a long process".[200]
The Polish Catholic Mission co-operated with the English hierarchy's 2008 research inquiry into the needs of migrants in London's Catholic community. The inquiry had been commissioned by the
Miracles
A number of events which Catholics hold to be
Marian apparitions
A number of
- Our Lady of Mount Carmel, associated with Simon Stock at Aylesford
- Our Lady of Walsingham, associated with Richeldis de Faverches at Walsingham
- Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, associated with Helsim the Abbot in the North Sea
- Our Lady of Evesham, associated with Egwin of Evesham at Evesham
- Our Lady of Canterbury, associated with Dunstan and Anselm at Canterbury
- Our Lady of London, associated with Hildegard von Bingen at London
- Our Lady of Jervaulx, associated with Abbot John Kingston of Byland at Jervaulx
- Our Lady of Durham, associated with Godric of Finchale at Durham
- Our Lady of Ipswich, associated with Anne Wentworth at Ipswich
Pilgrimages
Augustine Camino, ending at
Incorruptibility
A number of cases of alleged incorruptibility of some Catholic saints are associated with England;
- Æthelthryth of Ely, hand discovered in 1811
- Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, relics destroyed under Henry VIII
- Werburgh of Chester, relics destroyed under Henry VIII
Now believed to be buried beneath her shrine in Chester cathedral.
- Wihtburh of East Anglia, relics destroyed under Henry VIII
- Winibald of Wessex, tomb found empty in 1968
- Guthlac of Crowland, relics destroyed by Vikings
- Ælfheah of Canterbury, buried at Canterbury Cathedral
- Edward the Confessor, bodily allegedly intact in 1269, skeleton by 1685
- Hugh of Lincoln, tomb pillaged in 1364, shrine destroyed under Henry VIII
- Edmund of Abingdon, taken to Pontigny Abbey in France
- John Southworth, returned to Westminster Cathedral in 1927
Stigmata
Two cases of alleged stigmata are associated with England, neither have been approved by the Vatican;
- 1880: Teresa Helena Higginson, Servant of God, at Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
- 1986: Patricia de Menezes, at Surrey
Catholic saints associated with England
See
See also
- Agatha Christie indult
- Carthusian Martyrs
- Catholic Church by country
- Catholic Church in Ireland
- Catholic Church in Scotland
- Catholic Church in the United Kingdom
- Catholic National Library
- Catholic schools in the United Kingdom
- Colleges of St Omer, Bruges and Liège
- Council of London in 1102
- English College, Rome
- Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
- Latin Mass Society of England and Wales
- List of Catholic churches in the United Kingdom
- List of Catholic martyrs of the English Reformation
- List of English cardinals
- Priest hole
- The Stripping of the Altars
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- ^ Fourteen Catholic bishops appointed by Mary I were dismissed from their sees. "Elizabeth's Religious Settlement, planned meticulously by her chief ministers William Cecil and Nicholas Bacon and already drafted in the first weeks of her reign, made no significant concessions to Catholic opinion represented by the church hierarchy and much of the nobility. There was no question of offering it for inspection by the overwhelming Catholic clerical assemblies, the Convocations of Canterbury and York, and if parliamentary legislation faced still opposition from the Catholic majority in the House of Lords. This meant a delay until April 1559, when two Catholic bishops were arrested on trumped-up charges and the loss of their parliamentary votes resulted in a tiny majority for the government's bills in the house of Lords." MacCulloch, p. 280.
- ^ 5 Eliz.1 c.1
- ^ (Russell, Conrad, The Oxford Illustrated History of Tudor and Stuart Britain, p. 281, Oxford University Press, 1996)
- ^ 23 Eliz. 1. c. 1 Penal Laws
- ^ Peter Marshall, Heretics and Believers (New haven: Yale University Press, 2017), plate #19.
- ^ Krista Kesselring, The Northern Rebellion of 1569: Faith, Politics, and Protest in Elizabethan England (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
- ^ 35 Eliz. c. 2 Penal Laws
- ^ Eamon Duffy, Fires of Faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009) 82.
- ^ Cullen Murphy, God's Jury, The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012), 197.
- ^ Darrell Turner "Christian against Christian in 16th century England" National Catholic Reporter 16 September 2005, 13
- ^ Euan Ward, "Code Breakers Uncover Letters by 16th Century Queen," New York Times, 2/9/2023. A 12.
- ^ MacColloch, The Reformation, 361
- ^ Peter Marshall, Heretics and Believers (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017), 572.
- ^ Haigh, op.cit.P. 290
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- Prentice-Hall, 1963), 175.
- ^ John Morrish writing on BBC production, "Baroque! From St. Peter's to St. Paul's" in Tablet 7 March 2009, 29.
- ^ Kevin Phillips The Cousins' Wars (New York: Basic Books, 1999, 52–3. Phillips says this: "Religious historians beg off from stating firm numbers for either camp. If Puritans probably represented 10–20 percent of the national population, most of them still worshiping within the Church of England, Catholics were much harder to count. Open 'recusants' – Catholics who paid fines to avoid attending the Church of England – numbered sixty thousand in 1640. Many more, however, reluctantly attended services on Sunday with scowls or for as short a time as possible. The more identifiable of these were called 'Church Papists'; the less important, ordinary grumblers who merely talked of preferring the older ceremonies were uncountable. In the north and west, at least half the population outside the towns were Catholic to some degree. By this broad definition, Catholics would have numbered 10–15 percent of the total English population. Practising Catholics, however, could not have been more than 2–3 percent. Catholicism survived most strongly among the nobility, of whom 15–20 percent clung to the old faith, including many leading magnates in an arc from Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire south to Derby, Worchestershire, and Hereforshire. However, even solidly Protestant East Anglian counties like Suffolk and Essex each had three, four, or a half-dozen aristocratic families holding to the religion of their forebears. This is perhaps one reason why the populace took Catholic 'plots' so seriously: What they called popery was especially visible among the powerful and influential."
- ^ Also see: John Morrill's The Nature of the English Revolution (1993); Conrad Russell's The Causes of the English Civil War (1990); and Barry Coward's The Stuart Age 1994).
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- ^ Mieczysław Biskupski, The History of Poland, Greenwood 2000, p 14.
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- ^ Ackroyd, 185.
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- ^ Alan Taylor, American Colonies (New York: Viking, 2001), 278.
- ^ The historian Diarmaid MacCulloch says that "His [James II] replacement on the throne in 1688 by his Dutch son-in-law Willem of Orange was virtually bloodless because the whole English establishment [including the Church of England's Seven Bishops ] stood by and let it happen, earning the event the name of the Glorious Revolution. This happy title is a disguise for the fact that Willem was (so far) the last foreign ruler to lead a successful military invasion of England, and the English did nothing to stop it." Diarmaid MacCulloch, The Reformation (New York: Viking, 2004), 514.
- ^ Also: Lisa Jardine, Going Dutch: how England plundered Holland's glory (New York: Harper Perennial, 2009). Her point: the "Glorious Revolution" amounted to a Dutch military takeover with English collaboration.
- ^ John Burns, "British Monarchy Scraps Rule of Male Succession in New Step to Modernization", The New York Times, 28 October 2011.
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- ^ Marshall, 577.
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- ^ Historian Antonia Fraser says this about the demographics at this time: "Estimates about the actual number of Catholics vary, as any estimate of a body practicing a religion forbidden by the law of the country must inevitably do. There were probably about 70,000 to 80,000 British Catholics in the 1770s, out of a population of seven million...." Fraser, 24.
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Further reading
- Altholz, Josef L. "The Political Behavior of the English Catholics, 1850-1867." Journal of British Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, 1964, pp. 89–103. online
- Beck, George Andrew, ed. The English Catholics, 1850–1950 (1950), scholarly essays
- British Catholic History biennial journal of the Catholic Record Society published by Cambridge University Press
- Corrin, Jay P. Catholic Progressives in England After Vatican II (University of Notre Dame Press; 2013) 536 pages;
- Dures, Alan. English Catholicism, 1558–1642: Continuity and Change (1983)
- Glickman, Gabriel. The English Catholic Community 1688–1745: politics, culture and ideology (2009)
- Harris, Alana. Faith in the Family: A Lived Religious History of English Catholicism, 1945–1982 (2013); the impact of the Second Vatican Council on the ordinary believer
- Heimann, Mary. Catholic Devotion in Victorian England (1995) online Archived 3 February 2019 at the Wayback Machine
- Hughes, Philip. The Catholic Question, 1688–1829: A Study in Political History (1929)
- McClain, Lisa. "On a Mission: Priests, Jesuits," Jesuitresses," and Catholic Missionary Efforts in Tudor-Stuart England." Catholic Historical Review 101.3 (2015): 437–462.
- McClelland, Vincent Alan. Cardinal Manning: the Public Life and Influences, 1865–1892 (1962)
- Mathew, David. Catholicism in England: the portrait of a minority: its culture and tradition (1955)
- Mourret, Fernand. History of the Catholic Church (8 vol, 1931) comprehensive history to 1878. country by country. online free; by French Catholic priest.
- Mullet, Michael. Catholics in Britain and Ireland, 1558–1829 (1998) 236pp
- Watkin, E. I Roman Catholicism in England from the Reformation to 1950 (1957)
Primary sources
- Mullet, Michael. English Catholicism, 1680–1830 (2006) 2714 pages
- Newman, John Henry. Lectures on the Present Position of Catholics in England (University of Notre Dame Press, 2000) 585pp; based on 6th edition of 1889
External links
- The Catholic Church in England and Wales
- English Catholic History Association
- The Catholic Record Society
- Directory of Catholic Churches, Schools, Dioceses, Religious Houses, Chaplaincies and Organisations in England and Wales
- Taking Stock: Catholic Churches
- Who Were the Nuns?
- Society of St. Augustine of Canterbury