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Entry: The Real Bastille Day Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_real_bastille_day#2397 Post contents: To M.S.S. -- you may think my analysis is unique, but it is a matter of history, despite your apparent skepticism and the failure of textbooks to explain it. Yes, your are correct, there were few Catholics in colonial America at the time of the Revolution, approximately 20,000 to 30,000 or about 1 percent of the total population, centered primarily in Maryland and Pennsylvania. It doesn't matter whether "the Founders intended to persecute them to any greater degree than the British already did" or not. The climate was anti-Catholic. New England was particularly fanatic in this regard. As for Catholics benefiting from the American victory, it was a mixed blessing in that Catholics were seduced [thanks to Fr. John Carroll] into confusing true patriotism with devotion to the religion of individualism, democratism, and Pluralism. This goes contrary to perennial Catholic social doctrine eloquently summarized in Pope Leo XIII's encyclical Immortale Dei, where he states most unequivocally, "To hold, therefore, that there is no difference in matters of religion between forms that are unlike each other, and even contrary to each other, most clearly leads in the end to the rejection of all religion in both theory and practice. And this is the same thing as atheism." Look around you, can you see a vibrant, spiritually healthy United States? As I said before, the Founding Fathers were either anti-Catholic or totally indifferent to it. They were imbued with the spirit of Rationalism, which is a mark of the spirit of Freemasonry. As various popes have formally enunciated, Freemasonry, by its very nature and purpose, seeks to destroy both the religious and the Christian social order, particularly as it is posited by the Catholic Church. How else explain the secular nature of our Constitution. Our Lord Jesus Christ is not mentioned once in it, nor is the word "God". In my opinion, this is anti-Catholic. Sent at: 2008 10 14