Save Us From Gloomy Saints | National Catholic Reporter

Save Us From Gloomy Saints | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB: Some of our founding fathers thought religion to be an old country phenomenon.  Others were evangelical and had no use for the Catholic Church.  One or two might have been Catholic - but mostly popery was frowned upon.  No one should be allowed to Catholicize the American founding or even its early history without failing the smell test.  Only an evolving Constitution and populace give the Church any place at the table.  Indeed, prior to Vatican II, the Catholic Church very much against the freedom of religion America embodies.