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Catholicism, religious tolerance, and early America

James Matthew Wilson, Catholic World Report

Thursday, December 2, 2021

Michael D. Breidenbach’s Our Dear-Bought Liberty: Catholics and Religious Toleration in Early America provides a welcome, if chastening, case for the compatibility of Catholicism and the American republic. But does anyone wish to hear such a case today?

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