Duncan Stroik

[Duncan Stroik @duncan_stroik]

The Obama Presidential Center: A Pharaonic Temple in Chicago https://t.co/fNjgrvV5z0

[Bob Pisani @BobPisani]

An historic bank is reopening in Philadelphia. After decades of being closed, the restoration of the First Bank of the United States in Philadelphia is complete. The bank and the building itself are integral to the history of the U.S. economy. Alexander Hamilton, then Secretary of the Treausry, designed the plan for the bank. The bank helped stabilized the country’s finances, created a more reliable national currency, and laid the future groundwork for a national credit and banking system.

The historic building will be celebrated with a sold-out reopening gala on June 16 and will officially reopen to the public on July 1, welcoming visitors back into one of the nation’s most important financial landmarks.

I am honored to be a part of that gala.

Congratulations to the National Park Service and the Independence Historical Trust, the philanthropic nonprofit partner that raises private support for Independence National Historical Park, for helping bring this remarkable project to life.

Learn more here: https://t.co/EFoKNjVuDq

Facebook: @IndeHistoricalTrust

@IHTrust

LinkedIn: https://t.co/WjmkNLOz5k

[Duncan Stroik @duncan_stroik]

Religious Construction is way up. However, the article focuses on dying churches building housing. https://t.co/iaRpHbqVtL

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

The richest man in America signed a document that could have gotten him hanged, and when someone sneered that he was safe because no one would know which Charles Carroll to come for, he picked up the pen and told the British exactly where to find him.

His name was Charles Carroll, and the colonies were crawling with men who shared it. His own father was Charles Carroll of Annapolis. So when the Declaration of Independence came to him for signing in 1776, a delegate made a cruel little joke. He said Carroll risked nothing by signing. There were so many Charles Carrolls that the King's men would never know which one to hang.

Carroll didn't argue. He leaned over the page and added three words to his signature: "of Carrollton." The name of his estate. His address. He was the only signer in the entire room who wrote down where he lived, and he did it on purpose, so that if the British wanted to come hang the traitor, they would know exactly which door to knock on.

That is who Charles Carroll of Carrollton was.

Here is what makes the moment even sharper. He was not a man with little to lose. He was the single wealthiest man in the thirteen colonies and the largest private landowner among them. While George Washington and John Hancock get talked about as rich men, it was Carroll who topped them all. When he signed, he was wagering the biggest personal fortune in America against a noose.

And he was the last man anyone would have expected to be there at all. Carroll was Catholic. In colonial Maryland, a colony founded as a Catholic refuge that had since turned on its own, Catholics could not vote. They could not hold public office. They could not worship in public. The most educated, wealthiest man in America was, in the eyes of the law, a second-class subject barred from the very government he was helping to create. He had spent seventeen years being educated by Jesuits in France and spoke five languages fluently, and back home he still could not legally cast a ballot.

So he became the only Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence, putting his name on a revolution that he hoped would build a country with room for men like him. That was its own enormous bet, made by a man the existing system had already shut out.

Then he simply outlived everyone.

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on the same astonishing day, July 4, 1826, exactly fifty years after the Declaration. When they were gone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton was the last living signer left on earth. For six more years he was the final human link to that room in Philadelphia, the last hand that had signed, a living relic of the founding that ordinary Americans traveled to see and shake.

He finally died in November 1832 at the age of ninety-five, fifty-six years after he wrote his address on a treason document and dared the empire to come find him.

The richest man in America. The only Catholic. The last one standing. He had more to lose than any of them, every legal reason to stay quiet, and he signed his full address anyway.

We remember the names we were handed in school. We forget the man who made sure his couldn't be mistaken for anyone else's.

Which Founding Father do you think history shortchanged the most?

[Duncan Stroik @duncan_stroik]

‘Like a Klingon prison’: inside Barack Obama’s audacious, near-windowless, $850m presidential library | Architecture | The Guardian https://t.co/PbhxnuwZfV

[Cedars and Saints🇻🇦 @CedarsAndSaints]

Choose wisely.

[Duncan Stroik @duncan_stroik]

@wrdcsc bravo. complimenti.

[Buckley Institute @BuckleyInst]

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Only 1/100 of Yale’s honorary degrees went to a Republican.

Read Buckley’s full report on the political leanings of Yale’s honorary degree recipients here:

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[Duncan Stroik @duncan_stroik]

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[Duncan Stroik @duncan_stroik]

In a world of evil and death, some suggest it is dishonest to make beautiful art. Duncan Stroik’s celebration of his daughter’s life proves them wrong. https://t.co/44WGqDq6iq

[Duncan Stroik @duncan_stroik]

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[Robert W Malone, MD @RWMaloneMD]

I can't love this post enough.

[Duncan Stroik @duncan_stroik]

Freeform can be a straitjacket
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[U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops @USCCB]

Most Rev. Kevin C. Rhoades, Bishop of @diocesefwsb, on the consecration of the United States to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
On June 11, 2026, the U.S. bishops will consecrate our nation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus as part of the Church's celebration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The Church has a beautiful and rich tradition of devotion to the Sacred Heart, with papal documents, theological works, and spiritual reflections that can guide Catholics in the months leading up to the consecration.
Prayer resources, a novena, and ways for parishes to participate are available at https://t.co/suMCx8UKY4.

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

The New Yorker just dropped this, who would’ve thought a little college called the College of Saint Joseph the Worker, specializing in the trades, could revolutionize education!

https://t.co/ecbeaZr8QN

[Duncan Stroik @duncan_stroik]

What Is a Relic? Inside the Reliquary Chapel at Notre Dame - YouTube https://t.co/VxwnL40cxX

[Duncan Stroik @duncan_stroik]

@the_christnats that is the greatest