Americanism and Catholicism |
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accept alien allegiance Amer Anglican Apostolic Archibald Butt attitude authority believe bishops body bound Branch Theory Cath Catholic Church Catholicism century cern charity chief Chris Christ Christian citizens citizenship civil claim colonies common Constitution declared Divine doctrine duty ecclesiastical Edict of Milan Encyclical Letters England English equally Europe existence experience fact faith Father foreign freedom Gospel hold Holy human hyphenated Americans ican Immortale Dei independence influence institutions Jefferson Jesus Jews land liberty ligion Lord loyalty matter ment Monroe Doctrine moral natural non-Catholics obedience olics Ottoman Emperor Papacy papal patriotism political Pope Pope Leo XIII practical principle Protestant public schools race racial recognition recognized religion religious represent Republic revelation Roman Roman Catholics Rome Roosevelt sense society souls spirit stitution teaching theory things thought tion toleration true truth Uncle Uncle Sam Union United unity wholly worship
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Page 62 - Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people— a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs...
Page 32 - Is it not the glory of the people of America, that whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of former times and other nations, they have not suffered a blind veneration for antiquity, for custom, or for names, to overrule the suggestions of their own good sense, the knowledge of their own situation, and the lessons of their own experience?
Page 49 - I profess, sir, in my career, hitherto, to have kept steadily in view the prosperity and honor of the whole country, and the preservation of our Federal Union. It is to that Union we owe our safety at home and our consideration and dignity abroad. It is to that Union that we are chiefly indebted for whatever makes us most proud of our country.
Page 96 - No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency...
Page 97 - ... the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained...
Page 91 - That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested or burthened, in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge or affect their civil capacities.
Page 50 - That portion of the earth's surface which is owned and inhabited by the people of the United States, is well adapted to be the home of one national family ; and it is not well adapted for two, or more. Its vast extent, and its variety of climate and productions, are of advantage, in this age, for one people, whatever they might have been in former ages. Steam, telegraphs and intelligence have brought these to be an advantageous combination for one united people.
Page 89 - The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty Gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Page 140 - The Almighty, therefore, has appointed the charge of the human race between two powers, the ecclesiastical and the civil, the one being set over divine, the other over human things. Each in its kind is supreme, each has fixed limits within which it is contained, limits which are defined by the nature and special object of the province of each...
Page 92 - Almighty power to do ; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men have assumed dominion over the faith of others...