Allegiance Quote by Reinhold Niebuhr

“That is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to what they say a foreign sovereign, or something like that.” quote by Reinhold Niebuhr — Download Open image

“That is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to what they say a foreign sovereign, or something like that.”

Reinhold Niebuhr

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Allegiance, after all, has to work two ways; and one can grow weary of an allegiance which is not reciprocal.

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