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American Catholics Shouldn’t Abandon Religious Freedom

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. [1]