Oh, really? Who was here first?
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 )
Many of the founding fathers despised Catholicism, Jefferson associated it with despotism, and John Adams stated that he found its rituals ridiculous. Washington’s ecumenical gesture was pragmatism, as he was trying to prevent his forces alienating potential French Catholic allies in Canada. (Speaking of which, the a British Canada Act tolerating Catholicism and French law in Quebec was a significant motivator for the revolution, because many NE patriots viewed such toleration of “popery” as akin to the actions of James II before he was deposed in 1688.