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Columbus Day & America's Catholic Roots
Catholics have little reason to suffer an inferiority complex about their place in American history
By John M. Grondelski | October 9th 2026 8:28 PMThis coming Monday is Columbus Day. It also happens to be the date traditionally associated with Christopher Columbus’s landfall in the Americas: October 12, 1492. The Uniform Monday Holiday Act of 1968 moved the federal observance away from the historical anniversary and onto the second Monday in October. Columbus Day…
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