Un Fils de Notre: Catholic Bishops and American Exceptionalism

By Un Fils de Notre–Dame, Church Militant, September 8, 2021

The United States needs the Church

A recent Vortex about the “blundering bishops” and our national government featured the following statements:

• “The Catholic empire has fallen just as surely as the American empire has; in fact, the American empire has fallen because the Catholic empire fell first”

• “The U.S. hierarchy led the way, all the way back to the 1960s, publicly and in private”

But, it was not always that way. The contrapositive of these statements is also true:

• The United States experienced its historic success because the American Catholic Church hierarchy was successful first

• The U.S. Catholic hierarchy led the way for the American republic for the first century and a half of U.S. national existence ….

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