. History of the Catholic church in the United States--. re is no place in all the English dominionswhere the Catholic religion is exercised in greater liberty. Bishop Challoner himself thus described the condition ofhis transatlantic flock in 1756 : the state of religionin our American settlements, the best account I can give is,there are no missions in any of our colonies upon the Conti-nent, excepting Mariland and Pensilvania ; in which the ex-ercise of the Catholick religion is in some measure have had different accounts as to their numbers in Mariland,where they are the
. History of the Catholic church in the United States--. re is no place in all the English dominionswhere the Catholic religion is exercised in greater liberty. Bishop Challoner himself thus described the condition ofhis transatlantic flock in 1756 : the state of religionin our American settlements, the best account I can give is,there are no missions in any of our colonies upon the Conti-nent, excepting Mariland and Pensilvania ; in which the ex-ercise of the Catholick religion is in some measure have had different accounts as to their numbers in Mariland,where they are the most numerous. By one account theywere about 4,000 communicants; another makes them toamount to about 7,000 ; but perhaps the latter might designto include those in Pensilvania, where I believe there maybe about 2,000. There are about twelve missioners in Mari-land and four in Pensilvania, all of them of the Society. 1 Ragguaglio della Religione Cattolica nelle Colonie Inglesi dAme-rica. Manuscript in the Archives of the Propaganda, written after RT. REV. RICHARD CHALLONER, BISHOP OP DEBRA, OP THE LONDON DISTRICT. (53) 54 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP CARROLL. These also assist some few Catholicks in Virginia, upon theborders of Mariland, and in N. Jersey, bordering upon Pen-silvania. As to the rest of the provinces upon the Continent,N. England, N. York, etc., if there be any straggling Cath-olicks, they can have no exercise of their religion, as nopriests ever come near them : nor to judge by what appearsto be the present disposition of the inhabitants, are ever liketo be admitted amongst them. The question of providing these Catholics with a Bishopor Yicar-Apostolic had already been discussed at this earlyday. Some have wished, wrote Bishop Challoner in 1756, considering the number of the faithful, especially in thosetwo provinces, destitute of the Sacrament of Confirmationand lying at so great a distance from us, that a Bishop orVicar-Apostolic should be appointed for them.
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