Pioneer Priests And Makeshift Altars

It’s easy to think that American Catholic history began with the first American archbishop (John Carroll) or the first born-in-America saint (St. Elizabeth Ann Seton). But, as Fr. Charles Connor explores in this lively history, the Church was active in the American colonies from the very beginning of colonization. This is the largely untold story of American Catholicism: the colonial roots of what started as an outpost and became one of the most important and influential places in the modern Church.