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The Island Where Religious Freedom Began, by Jeffrey Bruno – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Religious Freedom. Image by Grok.

By Jeffrey Bruno, National Catholic Register, March 30, 2026

Jeffrey Bruno is an award-winning photojournalist and creative director whose vocation is to present the beauty and mission of the Catholic Church around the globe.

 

The first act of religious freedom in English America was not a speech or a law. It was a Mass.

Jeffrey BrunoThe five-hour drive south from New Jersey ends in a place where the world suddenly grows quiet. Roads narrow. Tall pines give way to salt marshes. And eventually the land itself thins until the Potomac River seems to surround you on all sides.

Late on the afternoon of March 24, I crossed onto St. George’s Island as the sun began its descent. The sky ignited in bands of gold and crimson. The wide waters of the Potomac mirrored every color, turning the river into molten copper as the sun slipped toward the Chesapeake Bay. ….

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