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As the nation celebrates its semiquincentennial, Catholic historians remember the father of our country as a central figure in the story of religious liberty in early America.
‘… to do Justice, to love mercy,’ he instructed in his ‘Circular Letter to the States.’
Thanksgiving to whom? Thanksgiving for what?
COMMENTARY: God’s intervention in near-assassination attempts is not something that can been proven by any empirical test.
“May the members of your society in America,” wrote Washington to the nation’s Catholics, “animated alone by the pure spirit of Christianity, and still conducting themselves as the faithful subjects of our free government, enjoy every temporal and spiritual felicity.”
Comforting words for a new nation and for a time when it was torn by civil war.
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