Happy 4th of July! On today’s show, Matt Swaim and Anna Mitchell also discuss today’s feast of Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati, who will be canonized later this year. Guests include Dr. Chad Pecknold to discuss what Pope Leo XIII had to say about Americanism, and Dr. Matthew Bunson on Catholic heroes of the American Revolution.
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HOUR 1:
Dr. Chad Pecknold on Pope Leo XIII and Americanism
Kevin Schmiesing on early American Catholics
Fr. David Endres on Catholic roots of American principles
Ken Craycraft on the positive and negative aspects of liberalism
HOUR 2:
Fr. Charles Connor on anti-Catholicism among the founders of the United States
Tom Farr on the importance of religious liberty
Dr. Matthew Bunson on the Catholic heroes of the Revolutionary War
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