[Aquinasfan]

Americanism, doubtless more virulent in our day than it was in Leo’s, combines a collective sense of Christian exceptionalism (America as the “Shining City on a Hill”) with the hubristic conviction that America can draw up her own moral code—or, rather, a limitless number of moral codes, arising from each individual’s conscience. Acknowledging the heresy and its internal contradictions helps us understand why Americans today can insist that we are a Christian nation while indulging in all manner of public and private behavior that is decidedly not Christian, from delighting in degenerate diversions, to sanctioning the murder of children

Great article and a great encyclical.

[Ransomed]

So Americanism is just ignoring/disobeying certain parts of official Church teaching based on personal preferences and motivated by a mistaken idea of liberty? Americanism can be any heresy as long as it is professed to be motivated by liberty?

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