The Burning of Nottoway and the New Pope: American Identity and the Future of Catholicism  — By: Crisis Magazine

The past six weeks have been filled with news in both the United States and the world at large. April 19 was the 250th anniversary of the battles of Lexington, Concord, and Menotomy, which opened the American Revolution, resulting in our independence in 1783. This semiquincentennial has received much less attention—outside the particular localities directly…

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The Financing of the Italian Clergy: State Control of the Church? — By: OnePeterFive

Above: the Lateran Treaty, establishing Vatican City. The financing of the Italian clergy represents one of the most insidious and sophisticated tools through which the state, particularly the Italian state (but also supranational institutions that view the Church as merely a means of social engineering), has gradually subjected the Catholic Church to its own interests….

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