Word: church
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...clash between American Democracy and Catholic Power arises, as Blanshard shows, because this control which the Church seeks to exert is necessarily illiberal, since it denies the right of "error" (in other words, any view which disagrees with the Church's official position) to be heard. Blanshard's book is a carefully documented study of how the Church is now trying to exert this control in the United States. What makes "American Democracy and Catholic Power" worthy of wide circulation is that most Americans are unaware of the extent of the Church's success in this effort at control...
Because the Church is a minority group in America, its methods of control here are different from those in Spain, for example. Spain comes near the Church ideal, the state which restricts its functions to the maintenance of order while subsidizing the Church in its control of education and morals. In America the strategy involves threats of boycott to offending newspapers, magazines, movie producers and distributors, and radio stations; establishment of a separate school system and attempts to infiltrate and control the public school system; and attempts to force legislative bodies, by the customary pressure group means, to impose...
...every one of us ought not to be permitted to escape criticism by hiding under the blanket of tolerance. For "American Democracy and Catholic Power" is not Ku Klux Klan rabble-rousing, but a picture carefully documented largely from official Roman Catholic sources, of what the Roman Catholic Church is now doing in America and what it would like to do in the future. Sedgwick W. Green...
...surface of the Canon Law, spot bombs the Papal Encyclicals, and analyzes in telling journalese pamphlets, articles, and speeches of both leading and lesser clerics throughout the country. His theses are in the main two: The Catholic community in America is tightly organized and disciplined from Rome; and the Church militant is bent upon securing political supremacy for itself and intolerance for all dissenting groups...
...documented book. Unfortunately its facts are not always as clearly stated as their sources. In a chapter, "Tolerance, Appeasement and Freedom," Mr. Blanshard criticizes the Knights of Columbus for committing "the fallacy of irrelevant conclusion." This means that they deny some misconception very close to one of the "unpopular" Church dogmas in order to deceive people into believing that the Church upholds American principles (and also denies the dogma). When the Knights of Columbus say that it is an "erroneous idea" to believe non-Catholic marriages are invalid, they are knocking over a straw man. The Church teaches (horror...