| The Disunited States
By Massimo Faggioli
The Tablet
September 26, 2018
https://www.thetablet.co.uk/features/2/14490/the-disunited-states
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The San Miguel Mission in Santa Fe, New Mexico, believed to be the oldest church in the US
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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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