Catholic Men and Women Integral to the History of U.S. worthy of imitation and still honored, contrary to some current politicians’ ignorance and outcry

Catholic Men and Women Integral to the History of U.S. worthy of imitation and still honored, contrary to some current politicians’ ignorance and outcry

The foundational documents of our nation were influenced by Catholic political philosophers such as Aquinas, Suárez, Báñez, Gregory of Valencia and Saint Robert Bellarmine, who wrote before theorists like Hobbes and Rousseau. This contradicts a popular impression that democracy was the invention of the Protestant Reformation. Luther and Calvin considered popular assemblies highly suspect. The concept of…