The Church In Politics—Americans Beware!

A spirited lecture delivered before an audience in Chicago’s Orchestra Hall, this work opens with a bold warning to the American public about the growing entanglement of church and politics. The speaker points out that most citizens remain comfortably indifferent to religion, yet the debate over a Catholic president has already ignited fierce controversy among Protestant denominations.

From there, the author lays out a constitutional argument: the U.S. founding document is deliberately secular, granting rights to individuals rather than to any faith. He contends that a devout Christian—whether Catholic, Protestant, or Jewish—cannot truly serve two masters, the Constitution and a higher divine authority, without compromising one or the other. Historical parallels are drawn with France’s turbulent past, where clerical influence clashed with republican ideals, underscoring the timeless tension between spiritual loyalty and civic duty.