The disunited states

UNITED STATES
The Tablet

September 26, 2018

By Massimo Faggioli

The American Church divided

The story of the Catholic Church in the United States of America is a success story. A small community of poor migrants and missionaries, barely tolerated and often unable to worship freely in a new nation founded by religious dissenters fleeing from European Christendom, grew to become its single largest religious denomination.

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