2. Of Blessed Memory

0.     Daniel J. Boorstin, America and the Image of Europe: Reflections on American Thought (Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1976), 70.

0.     Nicholas von Hoffman, “God Was Present at the Founding,” Civilization, April/May 1998.

0.     Alexander Kazam, “By Design and Choice: French Political Theorist Pierre Manent Reflects on Europe and the American Founding,” National Review Online, August 21, 2012.

0.     George Grant, Technology and Empire (Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 1969), 17.

0.     Napp Nazworth, “Robert George: Immigrant Gratitude Demonstrates American Exceptionalism,” Christian Post, August 5, 2012. See also Robert George, “Immigration and American Exceptionalism,” in his Conscience and Its Enemies: Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Secularism (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2016), 67–68.

0.     Matthew J. Franck, “Christianity and Freedom in the American Founding,” in Christianity and Freedom, vol. 1: Historical Perspectives, edited by Timothy Samuel Shah and Allen D. Hertzke (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016), 264, 271.

0.     John Witherspoon, “Dominion of Providence over the Passions of Men,” sermon in Princeton, NJ, May 17, 1776.

0.     Hugh Heclo, Christianity and American Democracy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007), 32–33.

0.     Franck, Christianity and Freedom, 284.

0.   Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 43.

0.   W. Bradford Wilcox and Robert I. Lerman, “For Richer, for Poorer: How Family Structures Economic Success in America,” www.aei.org/publication/for-richer-for-poorer/, October 28, 2014; and Ed Stetzer, “Marriage, Divorce, and the Church: What Do the Stats Say, and Can Marriage Be Happy?” Christianity Today, February 14, 2014.

0.   Jessica Gavora, “Obama’s ‘Julia’ Ad and the New Hubby State,” Washington Post, May 11, 2012.

0.   Robert Kraynak, “The American Founders and Their Relevance for Today,” Modern Age, Winter 2015.

0.   Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1984), 213.

0.   Catholics were obviously numerous in Spanish America—an important, but also a different, part of the nation’s story.

0.   Stanley Hauerwas, “The End of American Protestantism,” ABC Religion and Ethics, July 2, 2013.

0.   Pastoral Letter (1840), Fourth Provincial Council of Baltimore, in Pastoral Letters of the American Hierarchy: 1792–1970, edited by Hugh J. Nolan (Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor, 1971), 87–107.

0.   Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., Render Unto Caesar: Serving the Nation by Living Our Catholic Beliefs in Political Life (New York: Doubleday, 2008), 92–93, 130–31.

0.   Charles Morris, American Catholic: The Saints and Sinners Who Built America’s Most Powerful Church (New York: Random House, 1997), 67–69, 135.

0.   Pastoral Letter (1919), Pastoral Letters of the American Hierarchy, 238.

0.   “The Present Crisis” (1933), ibid., 292, 294.

0.   Letter of December 22, 1941, ibid., 378–79.

0.   Morris, American Catholic, 277.

0.   John H. Lang, “From Kristallnacht to the Kindertransport to, Finally, America,” Wall Street Journal, November 8, 2015.

0.   Morris, American Catholic, 281.

0.   John Courtney Murray, S.J., “Catholics in America—a Creative Minority?” Epistle 21 (1955): 36–41.