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Tar Heel Catholics
Although today the largest religious denomination in the United States, until the 1960s, the Roman Catholic Church represented less than 1 percent of the population of North Carolina. Tar Heel Catholics recounts the story of the Catholic Church in what was long called 'mission territory' on the doorstep of a rapidly developing American Catholic institutional presence. The explanation of this phenomenon lies in the history of the Deep South itself, including slavery, segregation, and the overwhelming religious dominance of the Baptist church. Tar Heel Catholics relates the great difficulty early churchmen encountered in attempting to establish Catholicism in an inhospitable environment. It was not until 1924 that North Carolina became the last state in the union to gain the status of a diocese.
A Place for All
It has been nearly 200 years since a scattering of Irish families settled on the western banks of the Catawba River in what is now Gaston County, NC. While they came to the New World in search of gold, they also wanted to preserve the best of the old world - their Catholic faith. They were far more successful in the latter than the former, and the seeds they planted flourish today as Queen of the Apostles Catholic Church in Belmont. This is the history of that church and of the Catholic Church in North Carolina. It is a story of faith and commitment, a story of priests and parishioners and a story of the growth of the largest church family in Gaston County.
