Moving to Scalan
From 1716, the Duke of Gordon would take on the mantle of main protector of the Scottish Catholic Church in the North, and it was to his...
Loch Morar
The first attempt to start a seminary on Scottish soil was opened in Glenlivet as early as 1699, before the bishops had even conceived...
Providing Priests for Scotland
When Bishop Nicolson visited the Catholic communities around the country he saw the clergy crisis for himself. The Mission’s most urgent...
Bishop Nicolson
The authorities in Rome, perhaps understandably, took some time to address the new conditions in Europe. We can point to several key...
New Missionaries
In the south of Scotland two or three small neighbourhoods still hung on to their Catholic Faith, centred on the houses of recusant...
Catholic Lairds and Clans
By now Catholics were reduced to little more than two percent of the population. They were unevenly spread, since their survival depended...