Anti-Catholicism/Wiki

[nordskoven]

Mother Elizabeth Seton’s Wiki article notes:

Elizabeth and Anna Maria were taken in by the family of her late husband’s Italian business partners. While staying with them, she was introduced to the actual practice of Roman Catholicism. Two years later, after her return to the United States, she converted to the Roman Church, into which she was received on March 14, 1805, by the pastor of St. Peter’s Church, the only Catholic church open in the city at that time due to the recent lifting of anti-Catholic laws under the new Republic. A year later, she was confirmed by the only bishop of the new nation, the first bishop of Baltimore, the Right Reverend John Carroll…

So under Wiki’s Anti-Catholicism section, there is no detailed mention of anti-Catholic laws unless the Blaine laws is what they are referencing. So can anybody make this more specific? What law/s?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Catholicism

 

[pkdsquared]

Might be referencing the fact that Catholicism was actually illegal in America until the 1780s, being essentially banned in all 13 colonies with the exception of Maryland (who had a population of 3000 Catholics out of 34000 people). This wasn’t long after that, and the Church may have been slow to pop up.

 

[puzzleannie]

most of the colonies had established churchs, Anglican in Virginia, Puritans in parts of Mass. etc. until very late into the colonial period. It was either illegal to belong to another faith, or to be a non-believer, or you had to pay an additional tax, sometimes could not vote, hold local office etc. It took a while under the new Republic for freedom of religion to become a reality. If you can find debates on the framing of the Bill of Rights you can see how this history played out. Many states had such laws still on the books well into the 19th century.

 

[Archangelic]

Might be referencing the fact that Catholicism was actually illegal in America until the 1780s, being essentially banned in all 13 colonies with the exception of Maryland (who had a population of 3000 Catholics out of 34000 people). This wasn’t long after that, and the Church may have been slow to pop up.

I believe it was accepted in New York and Pennsylvania as well.

 

[ESMDHokie77]

Might be referencing the fact that Catholicism was actually illegal in America until the 1780s, being essentially banned in all 13 colonies with the exception of Maryland (who had a population of 3000 Catholics out of 34000 people). This wasn’t long after that, and the Church may have been slow to pop up.

yay Maryland! the only Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence came from MD… Charles Carrol