MGB:_That that Congress took both sides of religious freedom in seeking help domestically and in Canada is no scandal. Revolutions are desperate and take all the help can get, including from Papist France at Yorktown.
Whether Catholic immigrants are resisted because they are obedient to the Pope or because they were poor probably has both as an answer, although the poverty angle is probably the truest. Still, if you look at the anti-liberal, anti-democratic encyclicals of that era, Rome certainly did not do anything to disuade the anti-Catholics from their fears.
Today, you have conservative Catholics who will say that voting for a pro-choice candidate is mortally sinful, including bishops who will deny Communion to Catholic politicians with such views. The USCCB was hardly strident in its attempts to tell Trump not to repeal the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act. They have never warmed to Obamacare, so they are standing with racism in their support for Trump. Maybe the founders weren’ so parochial after all.
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