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Sacred Spaces
St. Peter’s Church (Peterskirche) Vienna, Austria
True Beauty
O Vos Omnes (Newman University Church, Dublin, Ireland)
RECENT COLUMNS
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Francis X. Maier
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John M. Grondelski
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Robert Royal
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Brad Miner
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Eduardo J. Echeverria
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American Catholics Shouldn’t Abandon Religious Freedom
Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, National Review
Friday, May 12, 2023
The Church’s articulation of religious freedom is entirely compatible with what was granted to Americans nearly two centuries earlier in the First Amendment to the Constitution. In his book Our Dear-Bought Liberty:Catholics and Religious Toleration in Early America, Ave Maria professor Michael Breidenbach traces the influential role of colonial Catholics in America’s founding and their contributions to our country’s great tradition of religious freedom.