I understand fully well what you’re talking about but you forgot to mention the many American volunteers who fought on the communist side in Spain. No American volunteers on the opposing side as far as I know.
And talking about persecution of the Church — don’t think it can’t happen in the US. How many American “Catholics” voted for Obama whose government may just start to question the Church’s rights here at home. And should a persecution ensue, we can thank these American catholic voters for making it happen.
“you forgot to mention the many American volunteers who fought on the communist side in Spain. No American volunteers on the opposing side as far as I know.”
I did mention the American volunteers; a large number of them were Bolsheviks who weren’t even born Christian. Franco’s side had volunteers from Ireland, who described their fighting as “faith in action”.
As for Obama persecuting the Church, that has already started with ObamaCare (besides the regular, daily run-of-the-mill attacks on Christianity by our leftist media). In my state (NJ), the government is successfully eliminating the Church from healthcare (by requiring treatment for uninsured, then reducing reimbursement for such required treatments) and education (by imposing such high education taxes for the public schools that private education is available to a small number of wealthy people). My diocese has already gotten out of the hospital business, and is steadily withdrawing from the education business (several schools closing annually).
I have no misconceptions about where faith stands with the leftists and their puppet Obama.