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[livius]

Interesting article. The situation of Catholics at the time of the Civil War was particularly complicated for many reasons - historical, socio-economic, and religious. One thing the article does explain is the historical connection between the Democrat Party, which always went around looking for vulnerable immigrants (and still does) and Irish Catholics.

However, the Church was here long before the Potato Famine, and Catholics fought in and aided the Revolution, even though there were serious restrictions on them and they weren’t even allowed to participate in politics or run for office.

[Zionist Conspirator]

As I understand it, most American Catholics (though certainly not all) sympathized with the South--ironic considering the Catholic Church's identification with anti-Southern liberal Northern urban areas.

There are still a few Catholics (not many, since the Catholic establishment isn't fond of Southerners) who thump this "Catholicism is the Southern religion!" line because the slave states were feudal and semi-aristocratic and because Pius IX supported them. Of course, let those same Southerners being courted insist on remaining true to the historical truth of all of Genesis and their Catholic "friends" very soon turn on them with the same anti-Southern slurs the Northern liberals use.

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[Verginius Rufus]

There are some errors in the article--Daniel Carroll (delegate to the Constitutional Convention) was a cousin, not a brother, to Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the Signer of the Declaration of Independence. The draft riots in New York City in July 1863 did not kill "hundreds" of people but slightly over 100.

The article does not seem to mention Father Ryan, the "poet laureate of the South," a Catholic priest.