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Kolokotronis:Incredible man, this Pope!"

theoden:Professors in academia are always revising history, or only telling a part of it in order to advance their views. They make me so mad sometimes, that I don't know how I restrain myself from punching them out.

Slowly truth and knowledge is becoming more in focus. We may not see a more glorious world but I think our grand kids or great grand kids might. Spin and lies cannot stand. I am amazed to see a huge difference between the American and French revolution as spelled out by B16!

God bless anyone who holds the truth and prays for it to live again in public. Jesus and his Church will bring it on home. Vatican II will eventually unite our Church - as the Article points out with:

"The American Revolution, which institutionally separated Church and state while affirming the transcendent origins of the “truths” on which democratic politics had to be based, was an entirely different matter than its French counterpart. Thus “1776” helped compel the development of doctrine that eventually led to Vatican II’s Declaration on Religious Freedom (a point that might be pondered, not only by Lefebvrists, but by Communio contributors convinced that America is, at bottom, an ill-founded republic)."

The US and its affirming of religious belief is larger than we can imagine. It was an idea made real by the Fathers of the USA! And it will eventually make the difference as the world re-embraces Christ and the Church. Amazing point and reality. God bless B16 and the Fathers of Our Country!

Dunno if any of you caught that PBS special on John Adams last night, but it got into the estragement between Adams and Jefferson--caused in no small measure because Jefferson was convinced that The French madness was fed by the same love of liberty as here in the States, whereas Adams deplored it as mob violence and was harshly critical against its excesses. I believe Adams even said that the American Revolution was precisely necessary to *preserve* order and natural law, not to overthrow it as the French tried. And then he correctly predicted that it would degenerate into supreme power under a single despot.

Later in his life, Jefferson admitted to Adams that he had been wrong.