The correct answer is A) Catholics could be safe.
The colony of Maryland was established as a place where Catholics could be safe.
The colony of Maryland was founded in 1632 by Cecil Calbert or Lord Baltimore. The first city was named St. Marys, in the Chesapeake Bay. The colony was established as a safe place for Catholics that were persecuted in Europe. In this, his new place in the Americas, Catholics were able to practice Catholicism and nobody would be chasing them.