"Every man, Catholic and non/Catholic, fell on his knees with his head bowed down" -- "The end of religious controversy" -- "I have the responsibilities, he the virtues" -- "An 'heir-loom'" -- "The radical necessity of the Church" -- "The Catholics...will be found among the fastest friends of the Union" -- "The devil...comes to us as a philanthropist" -- "Cowards fearing the light of day, and skulking beneath the cover of darkness" -- "The Know-Nothings have inaugurated a new era" -- "Framed, no doubt, for the express purpose of corrupting the faith of Catholic children" -- "I wish that secession had never been thought of" -- "Called upon by both sides to fight in the battles of the country" -- "The nations of antiquity had slaves; where are those nations now?" -- "Unless, as a body, we besiege heaven with prayer, god will not be pacified" -- "Waning of the prejudice against our religion, coming from the highest range of Protestant society" -- "The most logical and effective assailants of slavery that these last three years have produced have been devout Catholics" -- "If the general is crossing himself we are in a desparate situation" -- "A mere inferential recognition, unconnected with political action or the regular establishment of diplomatic relations" -- "Judea produced but one Judas Iscariot" -- "The bishop attributes to God what is an execrable violence of men" -- "The only country in which the Pope could seek and find a suitable and secure asylum".
Summary:
"Four men joined the Catholic Church in the mid-1840s: a soldier, his bishop brother, a priest born a slave and an editor. Much has been written about the Catholic Church and about the Civil War. This book is the first in more than half a century to focus exclusively on the intersection of these two topics"-- Provided by publisher.
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