Orestes Brownson
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Orestes Augustus Brownson was an American intellectual, activist, preacher, labor organizer, and writer. Brownson was also a noted Catholic convert. Brownson was a publicist, a career which spanned hi
Portrait by George Peter Alexander Healy, 1863
Orestes Brownson.
Charles-Forbes-René, comte de Montalembert was a French publicist, historian and Count of Montalembert, Deux-Sèvres, and a prominent representative of liberal Catholicism.
Orestes Brownson
…the bishop of his diocese requesting that he cease leveling such harsh criticisms. Brownson's stance had much in common with the liberal Catholicism of Charles de Montalembert, with whom he corresponded, and he published articles in French liberal Catholic publications such as Le Correspondant, taking the side of the liberals…
Charles Forbes René de Montalembert, painted in 1879
Memorial plaque to Charles de Montalembert, 5 impasse de Valmy, Paris 7