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America has Founding Fathers. A Catholic saint was a Founding Mother

America’s founders built the machinery of the republic. Mother Seton helped build its conscience

By Rob Judge Fox News

Published June 15, 2026 9:00am EDT

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Americans know the names of the founders almost by reflex: Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Hamilton, Franklin.

Ask the country to name a "Founding Mother," however, and the room usually goes quiet.

That may be because we still tend to think of America’s founding as something accomplished only in statehouses, battlefields, and constitutional conventions. We celebrate the men who built the republic’s political framework, while often overlooking those who helped shape its moral character.

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But nations are not sustained by constitutions alone. They are also held together by schools, hospitals, charities, communities, moral conviction, and the stubborn belief that neighbors owe something to one another.

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Which is why, 250 years after her birth, it is time to pay homage to Elizabeth Ann Seton — educator, humanitarian and Catholic saint — as Founding Mother and one of the most quietly........

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