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Diplomatic Relations. In the pre-Revolutionary period, according to Author Stokes, religious liberty in America received its chief impetus from such men as Cecil Calvert, Lord Baltimore, Roman Catholic founder of Maryland, from Baptist John Clarke, sometimes called the "Father of Rhode Island," and from Quaker William Penn of Pennsylvania...
Dr. Stokes gives no aid & comfort to those who would interpret the U.S. Constitution as a blueprint for a secularist society. Over & over again, he stresses the basically religious-and Christian-premises of the founding fathers. Even Benjamin Franklin, considered the most skeptical, urged at the Federal Convention in 1787...
Dr. Stokes presents detailed accounts of the background of controversies that are still making news. The question of a U.S. diplomatic representative at the Vatican first came up in 1779, when John Adams wrote the Continental Congress that he hoped it would "never send a minister to His Holiness," nor...
Two Defects. Stokes devotes 14 pages to last year's controversy between Cardinal Spellman and Mrs. Roosevelt. He says that the Cardinal's final statement limiting the Roman Catholic request to "auxiliary aids" for parochial schools, e.g., bus transportation, free lunches, medical care, was "of epoch-making importance...
Stokes sums up the case as "a most interesting and illuminating public discussion, the general results of which should prove of benefit to the country, even though many non-Catholics may differ on the question of auxiliary aids, and many Catholics may regret that the Cardinal yielded on the matter...