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cold war inAmerica based on religious sectarian-ism,Thomas Sugrue warns.“Thereis an armed truce which goes by thename of religious tolerance,but be-hind its curtain of manners and hy-pocrisy the old 'differences—personalopinions translated into secular prej-udices—are as raw as ever and asready for action....Sectarianism—irritating and restrictive in social life,poisonous and frustrating in spirituallife—marks the defeat of religion andthe perversion of its purpose as anaid to man in his search for inner andouter peace,in his desire to be knownwell by others and to feel well withGod.”  \nAs a practicing Roman Catholic com-municant,Mr.Sugrue is firmly con-vinced that self-criticism is the firststep.And so here he casts off his ownmantle of sect,breaks the taboo againstfinding fault publicly with one's ownreligious group,and speaks out.“I donot think that any group of people,whoever they may be,should be al-lowed to employ the Church...asan instrument for the expression andexercise of that group's prejudices...  \n200xdm  \nA CATHOLIC SPEAKS HIS MIND  \nThis book is dedicated not to a person,but to a place,to a pieceof land in the State of Israel,a hill overlooking the northwesternshore of the Lake of Galilee,which is called the Mount of Beati-tudes.On it a Church was founded,a Church for any and for allmen,and the ceremony of foundation was finished with thesewords,which are for all churches and for all peoples,“Be yetherefore perfect,even as your Father which is in heaven isperfect.”  \n# A CATHOLIC SPEAKSHIS MINDON AMERICA’S\n\nRELIGIOUS CONFLICT  \nThomas Sugrue  \nHAR PER&BROTHE R S,N BW Y0RK  \nA CATHOLIC SPEAKS HIS MIND ON AMERICA's RELIGIOUs CONFLICTCopyright,1951,1952,by Harper d BrothersPrinted in the United States of America  \nAll rights in this book are reserved.No part of the book maybe used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without writ-ten permission except in the case of brief quotations embodiedin critical articles and reviews.For information address Harper&Brothers,49 East 33rd Street,New York 16,N.Y.  \n# PREFACE\n\nT have fled the writing of this essay as if it were the HoundI of Heaven.I have tried to escape it;I have looked for some-one else to do it;I have argued that the essence of its content-the social and spiritual ravages of religious sectarianism amongthe American people-is known to everyone and thereforeneeds no announcement that it exists.I have considered mypresumption in discussing it,my inadequacy in analyzing it.Such considerations in the end did not help me;I was corneredfinally by the alternatives of writing it or ceasing to live withmyself.I wrote it,and now that it is finished and parts of ithave appeared in The Christian Herald as a duet of articles,I am faced with the fact that its publication has broken a taboo,a taboo of my own people,the Roman Catholics;a tabooexpressed by the tribal comment,“Let somebody else say that!”  \nThis is why it was not written before,by another-or a dozenothers-of my faith.When at the end of 1941 the United Stateswent to war with Japan and Germany,self-criticism disap-peared for the duration from her newspapers,radios and peri-odicals.Ten years later she was still uncovering the graft andtreason which blossomed while her vigilance was turned out-ward and the integrity of her inner political body was left tothe natural virtue of her citizens.When in the sixteenth cen-tury Protestantism split the Western Church in two,self-  \ncriticism vanished from the parent body,the Roman CatholicChurch.Four hundred years later,in the latter half of thetwentieth century,it is still absent,and the damage its exilehas caused within the Church is incalculable,incalculablebecause there is no way to more than hazard what Catholicismmight be today had her rulers not theorized that criticism byProtestantism from without-","cbCait6YbeRwv2hy","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCait6YbeRwv2hy","pdf",3540874,72,"English","# Preface\n## Self-criticism and a suppressed taboo\n## Sectarianism, tolerance, and hypocrisy\n## Consequences for Catholic life and integrity","[{\"question\":\"What central change does Thomas Sugrue urge regarding America’s religious conflict?\",\"answer\":\"He urges ending sectarianism by bringing self-criticism back into the Church, rather than treating criticism as forbidden or threatening to one’s group.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the author interpret “religious tolerance” in practice?\",\"answer\":\"He argues it can function as an armed truce—an apparent tolerance that hides ongoing prejudices behind social manners and hypocrisy.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the author say the essay was not written earlier?\",\"answer\":\"He describes it as a taboo within his own Roman Catholic community, which preferred others to speak instead of members publicly finding fault.\"}]","A Catholic Speaks His Mind - On America’s Religious Conflict | PDF",181]