It’s an old argument: is Catholicism properly indigenous to this country, or a relatively recent foreign import? There are certainly places in Britain where the Catholic religion has maintained a tenacious or tenuous presence from medieval until modern times, but others from which it would appear to have been eradicated entirely, pulled up by the roots.
18 April 2024, The Tablet
Faith at the storm’s edge: Catholicism in Orkney
It was once reported that there were no papists on Orkney. But the fragile Catholic thread in the islands’ story has never quite been broken.
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