Tom Lehrer (1928) American singer-songwriter and mathematician
"National Brotherhood Week"
That Was the Year That Was (1965)
Labour, Nationality and Religion, in response to Father Robert Kane's lectures denouncing socialism, Catholicism and Socialism http://lxoa.wordpress.com/2010/09/23/catholicism-and-socialism/
Tom Lehrer (1928) American singer-songwriter and mathematician
"National Brotherhood Week"
That Was the Year That Was (1965)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
Speech: “Navy and Total Defense Day Address” (Oct. 27, 1941), Roosevelt, D. Franklin, Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States (1941) vol. 10, p. 440
1940s
Context: Your Government has in its possession another document, made in Germany by Hitler’s Government… It is a plan to abolish all existing religions — Catholic, Protestant, Mohammedan, Hindu, Buddhist, and Jewish alike. The property of all churches will be seized by the Reich and its puppets. The cross and all other symbols of religion are to be forbidden. The clergy are to be forever liquidated, silenced under penalty of the concentration camps, where even now so many fearless men are being tortured because they have placed God above Hitler.
“Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him.”
Walker Percy book Love in the Ruins
Source: Love in the Ruins
Patrick Pearse (1879–1916) Irish revolutionary, shot by the British Army in 1916
Address delivered at the Grave of Wolfe Tone in Bodenstown Churchyard, Co. Kildare, 22 June 1913
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
My Reviewers Reviewed (lecture from June 27, 1877, San Francisco, CA)
Context: Who sold white Quaker children into slavery? Protestants. Who cut out the tongues of Quakers? Who burned and destroyed men and women and children charged with impossible crimes? Protestants. The Protestants have persecuted exactly to the extent of their power. The Catholics have done the same.
James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon (1871–1940) British politician
Northern Ireland House of Commons Official Report, Vol 34 col 1095. Sir James Craig, Unionist Party, then Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, 24 April 1934. This speech is often misquoted as: "A Protestant Parliament for a Protestant People", or "A Protestant State for a Protestant People".
Mario Cuomo (1932–2015) American politician, Governor of New York
Religious Belief and Public Morality (1984)
Context: I protect my right to be a Catholic by preserving your right to believe as a Jew, a Protestant, or non-believer, or as anything else you choose.
We know that the price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that they might some day force theirs on us.
This freedom is the fundamental strength of our unique experiment in government. In the complex interplay of forces and considerations that go into the making of our laws and policies, its preservation must be a pervasive and dominant concern.
Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) German social scientist, author, political theorist, and philosopher
Das Merkantilsystem hatte noch eine gewisse unbefangene, katholische Geradheit und verdeckte das unsittliche Wesen des Handels nicht im mindesten. ... Als aber der ökonomische Luther, Adam Smith, die bisherige Ökonomie kritisierte, hatten sich die Sachen sehr geändert. ... An die Stelle der katholischen Geradheit trat protestantische Gleisnerei.
Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy (1844)
Avery Dulles (1918–2008) Catholic cardinal
Preface
The Catholicity of the Church