Sunday 16 August 2009

The Old Country, Indeed

This Assumptiontide, and every Assumptiontide, let us remember with gladness the consecration of John Carroll, first Bishop of Baltimore and first Catholic Bishop in the United States, on the Feast of the Assumption 1790, in the Chapel of Lulworth Castle, Dorset. Such is the English origin of American Catholicism. Not something that American Episcopalianism can claim.

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