“No longer, the Catholic Church in the country; nay, no longer I may say, a Catholic community; — but a few adherents of the Old Religion, moving silently and sorrowfully about, as memorials of what had been.”
Category Archives: History
Who was Edmund Bonner, the forgotten bishop of London?
“Bonner was deprived of his See of London for refusing to end the offering of the Holy Mass and the chanting of the Hours in the Cathedral of S. Paul, and for refusing to sign the new Act of Supremacy (1558).”
Cardinal William Allen (1532-1594)
“We take seminaries for granted today, but they were a new idea at the time, and one of the pioneers of these houses of formation was the man behind the organisation of much of what we know as the English Mission…”
The English College, Lisbon (1622-1972)
“Established at a time of penal persecution in England, it found itself able as a British establishment to help negotiate the marriage of Catherine of Braganza and Charles II…”
Catholic Louth and Mablethorpe 