Charles P. ConnorBesprekingen

A pretty good overview of Catholics in America before, during, and just after the Revolutionary War. I could have used more details, more depth but that's just me.

In this comprehensive history, Fr. Charles Connor details the life of Catholics in the American Colonies. It’s a tale that begins with the flight of English Catholics to religious freedom in Maryland in 1634, and continues through the post-Revolutionary period, by which time the constitutions of all but four of the first 13 states contained harsh anti-Catholic provisions.

Catholic readers will be proud to learn from these pages that despite almost two centuries of ever-more-intense religious persecutions and even harsher legal prohibitions, American Catholics in the colonies simply refused not to be Catholic.

Classic Catholic Converts presents the compelling stories of over 25 well-known converts to Catholicism from the 19th and 20th centuries.

Classic Catholic Converts. Fr. Charles P. Connor. 2001. Brief, readable biographies of American and British converts to Catholicism as well as a good description of the Oxford Movement are included in this book as is a good bibliography of books written by these converts. I expected more in depth coverage, so I was a little disappointed