tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post1106258882787024349..comments2024-03-22T18:43:00.710-04:00Comments on Unam Sanctam Catholicam: Long Live the Republic!Bonifacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672810254075072214noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-62806365710617241902014-07-13T23:31:42.492-04:002014-07-13T23:31:42.492-04:00Wonderfully said...if we were to say "I love ...Wonderfully said...if we were to say "I love America but dislike the Constitution" it would be a sort of rejection of the country per se. As Chesterton noted, the United States is the only nation founded on a creed.Bonifacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10672810254075072214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-71827017093789461762014-07-13T23:11:29.871-04:002014-07-13T23:11:29.871-04:00That was good to read. I think a particular diffic...That was good to read. I think a particular difficulty with patriotism for Americans is that loyalty to America is something of an ideology- certain beliefs about the nature of society, religion, etc. When I look at other countries I can see that many of them have gone through many forms of government while still remaining one people, because they are bound by a common history. On the other hand, our country is very young and from its beginning is defined not by a common history but by agreeing to certain ideas about liberty, property, etc. In fact other states that were separate are later grafted on not through sharing a history with us, but by agreeing with our form of government. One need not be a republican to love Ireland. It seems to me that love of the United states is more or less synonymous with belief in our form of government. I'm not disagreeing with you necessarily, but I think there are reasons why patriotism is particularly difficult for Catholics in our nation. To say "I'm an American but I disagree with parts of the constitution " is a more fundamental rejection of the nation than to say "I'm English and I object to part of the modern parliamentary system." I think that's why we often get divided into camps who "hate America" or else who argue that our constitution is somehow synonymous with a Catholic view of natural and civil law (a view I hear frequently on Catholic radio.) Brownson' s The American Republic, which argues for an exceptionally view of the nation but is also very critical of the founders, of lockean liberalism, etc in th manner of modern trads, remains in my mind one of the only major works to avoid these two pitfalls.Eric Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11638730349918691492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-50130553634260288732014-07-07T21:04:36.240-04:002014-07-07T21:04:36.240-04:00Very well said!Very well said!Paul Goingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06479425203740052841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-29488209213077438162014-07-04T16:45:35.126-04:002014-07-04T16:45:35.126-04:00This is very good. Thank you!This is very good. Thank you!DoubtingThomasnoreply@blogger.com