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Catholicism and the Gift of Liberty, by Bradley J. Birzer – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Catholicism and the Gift of Liberty, by Bradley J. Birzer

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By Bradley J. Birzer, Catholic World Report, March 19, 2026

Bradley J. Birzer is Russell Amos Kirk Chair in American Studies and Professor of History, Hillsdale College and author of several books, including award-winning biographies of J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Christopher Dawson, and Russell Kirk. His latest books are The Declaration of Independence: A Radical Experiment in Liberty (forthcoming in May 2026) and Tolkien and the Inklings: Men of the West (forthcoming in November 2026).

Editor’s note: The following address was given at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast early today.

Catholicism baptized common law, professed liberty through the Magna Carta, advanced Natural Law and Natural Rights through the Jesuits, helped inspire the Declaration of Independence, and gave us a truly great American patriot, Charles Carroll of Carrollton.

Dedicated to my friend, Barbara Elliott, who passed away suddenly on March 8, 2026.

During the famous and weighty 1773 Antilon-First Citizen debates of Maryland, Antilon, a radical Protestant by the name of Daniel Dulaney, challenged First Citizen, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, not for his republican views but for his faith, his profound and deeply held Roman Catholicism. Indeed, Maryland law at the time—dating back to 1689—forbade a Roman Catholic from serving in politics, forbade him from appearing in a court of law, forbade him from practicing his faith openly, and forbade him from raising his children in a “Catholic fashion.” The only thing a Catholic could legally do was own property, and that was double taxed and subject to immediate confiscation by the colonial government. For the Protestant Dulaney, then, the Catholic Carroll was anathema and an unworthy opponent. …

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Catholicism and the Gift of Liberty, by Bradley J. Birzer

Iran War Day 21: Netanyahu Blasphemes; Iran Strikes Gulf Energy Sites, Israel, U.S. Jet, by Mary Rose

Daily Scripture Readings and Meditations: His Hour Had Not yet Come

By Bradley J. Birzer, Catholic World Report, March 19, 2026

Catholicism baptized common law, professed liberty through the Magna Carta, advanced Natural Law and Natural Rights through the Jesuits, helped inspire the Declaration of Independence, and gave us a truly great American patriot, Charles Carroll of Carrollton.

Dedicated to my friend, Barbara Elliott, who passed away suddenly on March 8, 2026.

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