[Kenny Bunk]

Just FYI, Catholics in Maryland were forbidden to:
Build Churches
Assemble
Priests were not allowed to appear in public in clerical garb
had to tithe to the Episcopal Church

Maryland, "The Catholic Colony" was for a long time not a great place for English Roman Catholics. In point of fact, it was larger Irish immigration and in particular, more aggressive Irish priests who turned that around.

Although it began to abate somewhat by the Civil War, America was officially, that is legally, anti-Catholic throughout the early period.

[muawiyah]

One more time, at the direction of the King of Spain, who was himself a Catholic, and the richest and most powerful man in the world, the core area of what became the United States, to wit, Virginia, and then Acadia, this was a Protestant Preserve!

Catholics had the rest of the continent (including Florida).

The Brits didn't do it ~ the King of Spain forced them into signing the treaty!

[Salvation]

Interesting tidbits. Thanks.