02 Colonies, Conflict, and the Making of an American Church
History of the Papacy Podcast
History of the Papacy
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🗓️ 29 August 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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How do you build a church in a land that doesn’t want you? In this episode, we follow the early development of the Catholic Church in the United States—from Maryland’s founding as a Catholic refuge to the challenges of worship in secret and organizing without bishops. At the center of it all is John Carroll, a Jesuit priest who would become the first bishop in American history. Through political suspicion, missionary improvisation, and internal conflict, Carroll and his fellow Catholics carved out space for faith in a revolutionary new republic.
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| 0:47.8 | Welcome back to the History of the Papacy podcast, a podcast about the Popes of Rome and Christian Church. |
| 0:56.3 | Prepare yourself to step behind the ropes and leave the official tour of the story of the popes and Christianity. I am your host, Steve Guerra, and I thank you for joining me on this journey. |
| 1:10.7 | Here be not many of the Church of England, few Roman Catholics, abundance of Quakers, |
| 1:17.4 | preachers, men and women especially, singing Quakers, ranting Quakers, |
| 1:23.8 | Sabotarians, anti-sabotarians, some Anabaptists, some independence, some Jews, |
| 1:32.9 | in short, of all sorts of opinions, religious denominations, there are some and the most part |
| 1:40.6 | of none at all. Thomas Dongan, second Earl of Limerick, commenting on the religious state of New York City |
| 1:48.7 | during his time as governor from 1683 to 1688. |
| 1:55.4 | Previously, we explored the deep and surprising roots of the Catholic Church in the Americas, long before the |
| 2:02.8 | United States was even an idea. From North settlements to Spanish explorers, we saw how the church |
| 2:10.3 | was present in North America for centuries before 1776. Now we turn our attention to the English. In this part, we'll look at how |
| 2:21.6 | English colonies took shape along the Atlantic coast, how religion played into their development, |
| 2:30.2 | and how all of this helped shape the ground the Catholic Church would eventually grow on in what |
| 2:36.6 | would become the United States. So let's just get right to it. We're going to start right in the |
| 2:42.8 | thick of it. Summer of 1776. The American Revolution is in full spring. The colonies were in open rebellion against the British crown, |
| 2:54.2 | but before we go too deep into the military side of things, we need to take a step back and get a |
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