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Protestant leaders cried: "No Popery!" Protestant opposition to Catholic secular power and influence was growing...
...Sectarian protest against the sacraments (suspicions of "grace by magic") has resulted in secular indifference to the life of grace...
...Catholicism. Such a trend has inevitably produced in history the phenomenon called clericalism, which has been the bane of Latin lands and from which we in the United States have been providentially spared. Clericalism is the pursuit of power, especially political power, by a religious hierarchy, carried on by secular methods and for purposes of social domination...
...Roman Catholic Church has been receiving pages of copy in the secular press. It rightly deserves this coverage. ... It not only made news; it invited the press to be firsthand observers...
Spellman's sure progress in the Church led some to suspect that he was ambitious, a church politician, an organizer who in secular life might have become chairman of the Democratic National Committee. He has never worn his piety on his sleeve, and even in an age of publicity, an archbishop's devotional life is largely a personal matter between him and his God. His rule has been the Biblical injunction: ". . . When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and -when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret... ." (Matthew...