You may wish to find out why. The early US had state churches in most of the colonies. But that never stopped the US from having antireligious activities. The 1800s and early to mid 1900s saw extravagent antiCatholicism, for instance. But the point is that the results of whatever policy of the last 30 years the US has pursued, has been to decimate the Catholic population of the Middle East. And we see no evidence of concern. Have you?
Nixon had a Quaker background and Kennedy was Catholic but Viet Nam, for example, was neither A Quaker or Catholic war. So the truth of the below......well, views may vary. I don't do policy analysis's for the U.S. government.
Nixon was a profoundly bigoted and obnoxious individual, doing nothing to show the ideals of the Quakers. Eisenhower got us involved in Vietnam after the French withdrew. It is true that Kennedy sent the first large numbers of soldiers, but held back from full scale war. It was Johnson that escalated it to full on warfare. So I do not consider the Vietnam war to be tagged religiously - it was a reaction to Communist agressions.
But it does have the stamp of approval of Catholic authority and agrees with Catholic authority so would the Vatican web site say something contrary?
It does not have full authority - the stamp is of a local bishop which says that he can find nothing wrong with it. As I said, I find it useful but not completely authoritative. Many of the articles are a century old and the site is a private one, not a Church one.
I have no intention of debating U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East with anyone. It’s not an area that I know enough about to debate and it doesn’t really bear upon the subject I was discussing.
As I said: Nixon had a Quaker background and Kennedy was Catholic but Viet Nam, for example, was neither A Quaker or Catholic war. So the truth of the below......well, views may vary. I don’t do policy analysis’s for the U.S. government.
My point being, and I shouldn’t have to explain it as obvious as it is, is that the religious background of the presidents makes little difference in U.S. foreign policy.
“It (Catholic Encyclopedia)does not have full authority - the stamp is of a local bishop which says that he can find nothing wrong with it. As I said, I find it useful but not completely authoritative. Many of the articles are a century old and the site is a private one, not a Church one”
Thank you, we are in agreement then but that really has nothing to say about whether the aforesaid is accurate in what it says reflecting Catholic belief and practice.
If it is not I’m sure you can point that out.