... what is needed is loyalty to one’s nation and people tied to, and measured by, “truths that transcend them".
If, with the Pope, the nation is properly viewed as a natural human community, there is little either natural or communal about this one.
America, sorry to say it, was doomed from the start. We are a nation of treasonous bastards.
And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men.
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