I Am Roman Catholic

“Hilaire Belloc wrote about how difficult it is for Catholics in the English speaking world to fully appreciate and comprehend some of our great models and great saints and contributors to Catholic culture. He talks about how there is a Catholic culture and non-Catholic culture in Europe, but even in non-Catholic culture they can still perceive and fully appreciate Catholic culture because that culture is nearby ….however in the English speaking world it is particularly difficult to appreciate Catholic saints and heroes because there Catholicism re-entered late as an alien phenomena after society and the nation had been set in a fundamentally anti-Catholic mode..there all the national literature, traditions, law and especially history were and are fundamentally anti-Catholic...therefor it is inevitable that the Catholic body within the English speaking world should breathe an air not its own and be more effected by a spirit and philosophy not its own then is the case in other Protestant nations where Catholicism has existed in an unbroken tradition” ~ C. Joseph Doyle, in “Catholic Statesmen of the Twentieth Century”