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- The real story of Pennsylvania's Catholics began long ago in wilderness cabins and Old Philadelphia. It began with families who opened their homes as Mass Houses and who kept faith in spite of test oaths and taxes and protests from civil authorities.
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In the Philadelphia region’s cities and older suburban towns, an influx of Catholics from Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Southeast Asia in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries brought new vitality to a number of parishes.
Because of the Quaker belief and pledge of religious tolerance, Irish Catholics and Protestants, among others, made the city incredibly diverse. Philadelphia at the time had a need for industrial labor, [3] and at the time Philadelphia was becoming a major industrial center in the United States. [4]
After nearly a century of migration, the Scots Irish became one of the largest non-English ethnic groups in Pennsylvania, composing approximately 25 percent of Philadelphia’s population and 15 percent of the state’s population in 1790; they were also among the most influential.
Jan 10, 2022 · Area faithful of that period also witnessed the creation of a new Pennsylvania diocese: Allentown, established in 1961 by Pope John XXIII and comprised of five counties – Berks, Carbon, Lehigh,...
Mar 29, 2018 · As more Catholics from the West Indies came to Philadelphia, including refugees from the Haitian revolution, the city’s population of black Catholics grew. With the Great Migration came another wave.
In Old Philadelphia, Catholics came from a variety of nations. Early setters included English, Irish, Germans, Austrians, Italians, Canadians, Spanish, Portuguese, Belgians, French and Blacks. On the Pennsylvania frontier, most Catholics were German, Irish or English.
