Word: worshiping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nothing about Catholicism so confuses -and often dismays-U.S. Protestants as the stand of the Church on freedom of worship. Does Catholicism support the first article of the Bill of Rights? In U.S. practice, yes; in principle...
...August issue of the undenominational Christian Herald presents a question-&-answer analysis of the Catholic position. The Herald asks the questions, takes its answers verbatim from the pamphlet Freedom of Worship, published by the Paulist Fathers with the imprimatur of Cardinal Spellman. Excerpts...
...Does the Roman Catholic Church ever tolerate other religions? '. . . Pope Leo XIII explained this point tersely when . . . he wrote: "The Church indeed deems it unlawful to place the various forms of divine worship on the same footing . . . but does not on that account condemn those rulers who, for the sake of securing some great good or of hindering some great evil patiently allow custom or usage to be a kind of sanction for each form of religion having its place in the state...
...meet ours at the conference table they are in effect meeting the last tottering princes of original sin; and they cannot give way to us without yielding divine principle. That is one reason why the Russians are so difficult to get on with in pagan assemblies that do not worship Marx, Lenin and Stalin...
...anti-Christian state worship can be called a religion, then Communism...