--- a/third_party/blink/renderer/core/xml/parser/xml_document_parser.cc
+++ b/third_party/blink/renderer/core/xml/parser/xml_document_parser.cc
@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@
 
 #include <libxml/parser.h>
 #include <libxml/parserInternals.h>
+#include <libxml/xmlversion.h>
+#if defined(LIBXML_CATALOG_ENABLED)
+#include <libxml/catalog.h>
+#endif
 #include <libxslt/xslt.h>
 
 #include <memory>
@@ -538,10 +542,6 @@
 static bool ShouldAllowExternalLoad(const KURL& url) {
   String url_string = url.GetString();
 
-  // libxml should not be configured with catalogs enabled, so it
-  // should not be asking to load default catalogs.
-  CHECK(!IsLibxmlDefaultCatalogFile(url));
-
   // The most common DTD. There isn't much point in hammering www.w3c.org by
   // requesting this URL for every XHTML document.
   if (url_string.StartsWithIgnoringASCIICase("http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml"))
@@ -648,6 +648,9 @@
   if (did_init)
     return;
 
+#if defined(LIBXML_CATALOG_ENABLED)
+  xmlCatalogSetDefaults(XML_CATA_ALLOW_NONE);
+#endif
   xmlInitParser();
   xmlRegisterInputCallbacks(MatchFunc, OpenFunc, ReadFunc, CloseFunc);
   xmlRegisterOutputCallbacks(MatchFunc, OpenFunc, WriteFunc, CloseFunc);