![]() Besides the thousands of missionaries who accompanied European explorers in colonial days, there were movements in these United States, after the founding of the Republic, which sought to bring all Americans into Catholic unity. They clearly wanted to bring the Faith to the natives and to claim the whole New World for Christ the King. Before the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, the Spanish had a diocese full of Catholic Indians in Florida and Champlain planted the Catholic Cross with the French Lilly in Quebec. It is an idea, and a pursuit, with deep roots. Take away that pluralism, including the religious variety, and America is no more.īut the conversion of America - to Catholicism - is not a goal we made up. ![]() They do so because, whether or not they can articulate it, they have come to believe that an all-pervasive pluralism is America’s strength. Even omitting the frank “one, true” part, and rendering it the more nondescript “we wish to convert our nation to Catholicism,” makes some people - nominal Catholics included - stare in disbelief. “The conversion of America to the one, true Church.” This is a stated part of our community’s charism, one that provokes reactions.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |