[Unam Sanctam]

If "Americanism" meant support by Catholics of the United States constitution, why is not every single Catholic in the United States from Leo XIII onwards who is loyal to this country and its constitution excommunicated as a heretic? Americanism was a much more circumscribed notion. You paint with too broad a brush.

[royalcello]

Leo XIII was condemning the notion that the American model is ideal. American Catholics who are loyal to their country and support the U.S. Constitution are certainly not heretics, as long as they do not maintain that American-style pluralist republicanism is what is best for all countries. Once again, this is what I oppose, not the fact that the U.S. is a republic. How many times do I have to say this?