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Americanism and America

Faith & Culture by Ben Dybas

Jul 20, 2020Religion & Spirituality

In 1899, Pope Leo XIII issued an apostolic letter, Testem benevolentiae , in which he expressed concern regarding the development of “those views which, in their collective sense, are called by some ‘Americanism.’” [1] T...

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