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An Open Letter to the Honorable Alfred E. Smith in The Altantic

January 20, 2019 Sacred Liberty

Charles C. Marshall to Al Smith in the Atlantic April 1927 Charles Marshall, a prominent lawyer, wrote a major piece in the Atlantic magazine questioning whether Al Smith could truly be independent of the Roman Catholic Church. …The deduction is inevitable that, as all power over human affairs not given to the State by God, is given by God to the Roman Catholic Church, no other churches or religious or ethical societies have in theory any direct power from God and…

Letter from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, February 3, 1821

June 18, 2017 Religious Freedom Archive

John Adams February 3, 1821 John Adams antagonism to Catholicism reappeared in old age: “I have long been decided in opinion that a free government and the Roman Catholick religion can never exist together in any nation or Country” Dear Sir I have just read a sketch of the life of Swedenborg, and a larger work in two huge volumes of Memoirs of John Westley* by Southery, and your kind letter of January 22d came to hand in the nick…

George Washington, Defender of Catholics

June 12, 2017 Religious Freedom Archive

First published in Beliefnet.com I’ve written in the past about how some of America’s founders not only discriminated against Catholics but actively stoked anti-Catholic sentiment to advance the American cause. Yet somehow, Catholics ended up being gradually included in the American religious compact. As Pope Benedict XI said, now, “Respect for freedom of religion is deeply ingrained in the American consciousness.” What happened? I would argue that the key figure was George Washington. As the Revolutionary War began, many persisted…