Supposedly when the invading British admiral stood in the rostrum of the old U.S. House of Reptesentatives in 1814, he sarcastically asked his torch bearing marines: “Shall this harbor of Yankee Democracy be burned? All for it say Aye!”
In his recent address to a joint session of Congress, Pope Francis brought a very different attitude about Yankee democracy to the House chamber, concluding his speech with “God bless America!” He said “a nation can be considered great when it defends liberty [and] strives for justice” as urged by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr. And he commended the “richness of American culture,” which “has inspired so many people to dream.”
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