ABSTRACT
the decades following waterloo brought immense changes in the social and political structure of Britain. They brought changes in the religious and spiritual climate as well. One trend, perhaps too seldom recognized, was the beginning of a Catholic revival in England. There were at least 67 Catholic newspapers, journals, and periodicals launched in the British Isles in the first half of the nineteenth century; the admission of Catholics to Parliament (1829) and their wider participation in the franchise (1832) gave added force to the revival. 1
