If we see an erosion of civility, piety, morals, and good order in every liberal democracy ever established, we should not find this particularly surprising. We have had ample warning.
“I pray for the day in which my countrymen are converted to the Catholic Faith in sufficient numbers that we will elect Catholic leaders and amend our Constitution to give Jesus Christ and the Church He established rightful place in our government.”
Sorry but no. We should not and will not amend the constitution to do that.
No,we’re not a Catholic country. It was designed that way by the by the pilgrims who had seen what happens when there is a state religion, where the citizens are taxed to support the church.
there can be good and bad religious rulers.
the article says that the ideal ruler is a monarch in a
catholic country. Henry the eighth, for instance?
“Obviously the United States is not a Catholic country. A great many American Catholics have become so inured to that fact that they seem to place the authority of our Constitution above that of the Popes.”
Just as they should on matters of state. On matters of faith, look to the pope.
So while we’re restoring all this old stuff today’s Catholics are so ashamed of, how about taking a second look at total Biblical inerrancy?
This reminds me of the joke, “why do elephants paint their toenails red?” The answer goes: “so they can hide in the tomato patch.”
Huge elephants can’t hide themselves, very much like this lead article, Roman Catholics actually think their history of ruling hand in hand with European political leaders for over a thousand years can be hid? Their long history is blatantly obvious to everyone. Their trying to hide it is a farce.
They like to talk about the deplorable status of Christians here in the US, tying it to the church and state issue...while they are the main cause of it all. It is mainly due to the tyrannical rule of the RCC in Europe that the founders distanced themselves from anything that smacked of church and state government. Were it not for the RCC’s long history in Europe, Christianity would not have church and state thrown in our face at every turn.
Catholics vote Democrat anyway, I don’t want democratic voters choosing our leaders, that’s one reason that I am here at freerepublic.
The Constitution does not speak of the separation of church and state; the separation of church and state was invented by the “progressive” and former klansman justice Hugo Black in a Supreme Court opinion in which he seized upon a single letter by Thomas Jefferson that was unlike anything else Jefferson wrote and its phrase “wall of separation.” As a klansman Black was staunchly anti-Catholic. What the Constitution does speak of is that there shall be no establishment of religion, with the Church of England clearly in mind. The result of this decision, as pointed out in earlier posts has been the deification of the state a la Hegel and now a reversion to the worship of the Erdgeist so that humans are seen as sacrifices to Gaia.
The entire notion of an officially Catholic state is an invention of the 17th century.
The very notion of a unified nation state with a government as a distinctly delineated social force is more recent.
Create a Catholic society first. In a truly Catholic society, the state is a secondary and not entirely necessary consideration.
Good article. Indexed it on my profile page.
True, though sometimes ignored in practice, as when Jews were given the choice of conversion or death.
However, for many centuries the Church proclaimed its duty to use physical, even lethal, force to ensure those who had once embraced the faith remained in it.