The Catholic Threat: Jesuits and Seminary Priests
The mission of Campion and Parsons and the government's repressive response.
Key Questions
- 1How did the arrival of the Jesuits change the nature of English Catholicism?
- 2Why did the government treat seminary priests as traitors rather than heretics?
- 3How successful was the "survivalist" Catholicism of the laity?
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