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Vatican and other European clerics had also frowned deeply at the U.S. principle of separation of Church and State, which had been condemned by Leo XIII. But U.S. Catholics, uneasily aware that they were a minority, were early convinced that such a separation was their own strongest safeguard. Though Leo's views are still repeated by a few academic theologians, they are largely ignored by the U.S. hierarchy...
...American Heresy. U.S. Catholics were deeply hurt when Leo XIII, in an Apostolic Letter to Baltimore's Cardinal Gibbons in 1899, at last felt it necessary to condemn heretical "Americanism." Gist of the alleged errors: "Spiritual direction . . . was less necessary since in an era of liberty, the Holy Ghost would guide the individual soul. . . ." U.S. bishops loudly denied that such heresy had ever tainted U.S. Catholicism...
After years of this, Manager Webster suffered a nervous breakdown and retired to the quiet countryside, where he spent his few remaining years carving ship models and looking at the stars through a telescope. Pope Leo XIII created him a Knight of the Order of Pius for publishing his biography. In later years, Uncle Sam once said acidly: "If the Pope made Webster a knight, he ought to have made him an archangel...
...publicain Populaire in France. Its moderate progressivism attracted both Breton fisherfolk and Parisian shopkeepers. The strong religious base of the M.R.P. was not the prewar political Catholic group, which descended from the Royalist, anti-Dreyfusard reactionaries; the M.R.P. drew its ideology from the liberal social justice encyclicals of Leo XIII and Pius XI. In economics it was left of the U.S. New Deal; but in political outlook it had much in common with Thomas Jefferson...
...does the scientist join with the psalmist of thousands of years ago in reverently proclaiming, 'the Heavens de clare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth His handiwork.' " Hungarian-born Rene FtilSp-Miller, a onetime hermit on Mt. Athos who has written biographies of Pope Leo XIII, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Lenin and Gandhi, sees Physicist Millikan 's attitude as part of "a new 'renaissance,' which is about to bring back man's appreciation of the con structive wisdom and beauty of faith." To contribute to that renaissance, Author FtilSp-Miller has selected five saints...