[NYer]

Bradley J. Birzer is Russell Amos Kirk Chair in American Studies and Professor of History at Hillsdale College. He is the author of intellectual biographies of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Christopher Dawson, J.R.R. Tolkien, and (forthcoming) Russell Kirk.

[NYer]

Catholic ping!

[Jack Hydrazine]

“In 1776, numerous individuals, families, committees, congregations, localities, and states had already proclaimed their independence, and almost no remaining imperial structure could continue to operate with any legitimacy in what would very soon become 13 states.”

How long before America becomes that in relation to the District of Criminals?

[cripplecreek]

The restrictions on Catholic immigration to the USA were lifted 1790 I believe.

[TexasGator]

They forgot to mention the Ursuline Academy in New Orleans.

[2ndDivisionVet]

I thought Maryland was the Catholic colony?

[Publius]

Another worthy ping on the 4th of July. Also an Edmund Burke ping.

[Salvation]

**Hoping not to offend republican sensibilities, the Vatican contacted Franklin through two agents. Franklin said the man for the job was Jacky, and the Vatican consequently appointed John Carroll as the first archbishop in the United States.**

I had no idea of this little tidbit of information.

[Salvation]

10 Things You Should Know About the American Founding

America’s First Mass [Ecumenical]
George Washington’s Return from Service to Mount Vernon, Christmas Eve, 1783
Remember, Remember (George Washington and Guy Fawkes Day)
A Tea Party Thomist: Charles Carroll
America’s Catholic Colony [Ecumenical]
The Catholic Church in the United States of America [Ecumenical]
Catholic Founding Fathers - The Carroll Family [Ecumenical]
Charles Carroll, founding father and "an exemplar of Catholic and republican virtue" [Ecumenical]
CITIZEN JOURNALISM: Founding Catholic [Father]
"How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization" ( Book Review )

[jdege]

The vast majority was not of “Anglo-Saxon-Celtic descent”. There was a huge amount of immigration from Germany in the second half of the 17th century, as pepole fled the wars and the economic collapse engendered by the wars. Pennsylvania had a german majority, and many colonies had signicant German minorities.

There may have been more colonist of English descent than German, in 1776, but it was by no means overwhelming.

[tomkat]

.. but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent,
and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take ..

.. shall not be infringed

Kinda like that, I reckon.

[Inyo-Mono]

Bump!

[Spunky]

ping for later.