Scalan, although hidden away in Glenlivet, did not escape entirely the attentions of the authorities and was completely destroyed after...

The Annual Mass at Scalan next year will not be on the first Sunday of July, our normal fixture, but on Sunday 16 June (at our normal...

The seminary at Loch Morar had a short existence. It was discovered and destroyed by Government troops, the “redcoats”, in 1716, as they...

The Bishops had been unhappy for some time with the seminaries on the continent. Too many students were leaving. A common problem was...

Communications with Rome were fraught with difficulty. Church matters had to be conducted clandestinely. This gave rise to all kinds of...

Bishop Nicolson divided Scotland into fixed districts with a “missioner” (priest) attached to each one and laid down rules about how they...

In 1694, Scotland was upgraded to a Vicariate Apostolic. Both Prefectures and Vicariates exist in the Church today, usually in mission...

The medieval structure of the Scottish Church collapsed very quickly at the Reformation and it took a century before some semblance of...

Because of the Penal Laws the Faith went “underground”. Mass was celebrated in secret, priests couldn’t stay in the same place for long....

In the Penal Times, the seminaries abroad trained young men to return to Scotland to serve as priests in a country where they would be...