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Cardinal Gibbons: Effective Advocate for American Catholicism’s Americanization, by Russell Shaw – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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The memorial honoring James Cardinal Gibbons located at the intersection of 16th Street and Park Road, NW in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington, D.C... This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1931 and 1977, inclusive, without a copyright notice.

By Russell Shaw, OSV News Service, June 24, 2026

Russell Shaw, a longtime journalist and writer, was the author of more than 20 books, including three novels. He died in January 2026.

(OSV News) — H.L. Mencken — writer, journalist and prominent iconoclast of the century past — took a generally dim view of the clergy (along with many other things). But his view of Cardinal James Gibbons, archbishop of Mencken’s Baltimore for 44 crucial years, was different.

Writing after the cardinal’s death in 1921, the Sage of Baltimore — Mencken, that is — remarked that “more presidents than one sought the counsel of Cardinal Gibbons … a man of the highest sagacity, a politician in the best sense.” There was “no record,” Mencken added, the late prelate “ever led the Church into a bog or up a blind alley.” ….

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Cardinal Gibbons: Effective Advocate for American Catholicism’s Americanization, by Russell Shaw

The Promise and Peril of Religious Freedom for Catholics in America, by Dr. R. Jared Staudt

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By Russell Shaw, OSV News Service, June 24, 2026

(OSV News) — H.L. Mencken — writer, journalist and prominent iconoclast of the century past — took a generally dim view of the clergy (along with many other things). But his view of Cardinal James Gibbons, archbishop of Mencken’s Baltimore for 44 crucial years, was different.

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