Solange Hertz. The author states "that it was not so much the Rhine as the Potomac flowing into the Tiber that caused the crisis the Church suffers today". Although Pope Leo XIII formally condemned the heresy called "Americanism" in 1899, Mrs. Hertz points out evidence of its existence in the very beginnings of the Church in America. This startling account of U.S. history is presented with a Catholic perspective on what really happened, showing the influence of masonry on the thinking of the founders of the country as well as the Catholic clergy. Discover the rejection of the English speaking Bishops against the foreign speaking Bishops in America because the English speaking Bishops (Americanists) believed in the condemned philosophy of the French Revolution and its teachings on the Rights of Man, and the foreign speaking Bishops who emmigrated from Europe did not. Americanist Bishops also held the condemned belief in the separation of Church and State. Terrific reading! 187pp. PB. ITEM #10784 $13.50