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To: HWGruene; quesney
it’s the pope. Fish stink from the head down.

Catholics didn't establish & build this country, but they've helped tear it down...

The Catholic church is one of the MAJOR entities aiding and abetting the illegal alien invasion of the USofA, right after the demonRAT party.

13 posted on 05/18/2016 1:19:37 PM PDT by Veracious Poet (May God Bless America (again)
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To: Veracious Poet

Who put whom on the horse, on the bicycle?


17 posted on 05/18/2016 1:41:05 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Veracious Poet

Ever hear of Charles Carroll? Did you just come from the 19th Century, or what?


18 posted on 05/18/2016 1:41:26 PM PDT by Shadow44
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To: Veracious Poet; HWGruene; quesney; Shadow44
"Catholics didn't establish & build this country"

Of our American Founding Fathers, 90% were members of just three denominations: Episcopalian/Anglican (54.7%), Presbyterian (18.6%), and Congregationalist (16.8%). Here's the source for these figures.

So unless you're descended from one of those three denominations, with ancestors all the way back to the American Revolutionary War era, your ancestors, like mine, played only a small role in the formal leadership of the founding of the USA.

Catholics did, however, play a huge role in the building of this country. The largest source of American ethnicity is still German (larger even than British Isles), and 2/3 of them were Catholic. Together with the Spanish, Irish and Poles, Slavs, Hungarians, Italians and the rest, they explored our frontiers,named our mountains and rivers, settled our wilderness, built our cities, manned our industries, founded and expanded our hospitals, schools, Universities, cared for our sick, elderly and orphans, fought in our wars, and laid down their lives for our Flag "and the Republic for which it stands."

It's a history and a legacy of which I am proud to be an inheritor --- and of which all Americans are beneficiaries.

55 posted on 05/18/2016 4:04:42 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Stone cold sober, as a matter of fact.)
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To: Veracious Poet
Catholics built the first schools, the first hospitals, etc. You diagnosis is wrong.

Truth and Tolerance: Why the Church Can’t Change Her Teaching
How Old Is Your Church?

81 posted on 05/19/2016 10:22:16 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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