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Anti-Catholicism in America, 1620–1860 by Maura Jane Farrelly (review)

Professor Maura Jane Farrelly has written a short, yet significant new book on an old topic, anti-Catholicism in antebellum America. Eighty years ago, Ray Allen Billington and Sister Mary Augustine Ray addressed this topic, yet it has certainly drawn real academic interest over the past two decades. Although anti-Catholicism has dissipated over the last half-century, it has not altogether disappeared. As Farrelly observes, for much of the nation’s early history, American religious and political leaders viewed Catholicism as a threat to “national identity individual liberty, personal salvation, and the stability of free government” (p. xi.). Certainly the Catholic Church represented different threats to various Americans during distinct eras. Over the course of the colonial and early national period however, one antiCatholic theme remained constant, the Church and its adherents represented a major threat to American freedom. (p. xii).