American Babylon: Place of Grace and Exile

This month, Americans celebrate the 250th anniversary of our nation’s founding. Many Catholics who love both God and country will resonate with the words of Fr. Richard John Neuhaus in his last book. In it, he wrote, “When I meet God, I expect to meet him as an American.” Quick to clarify that this was not the most important aspect of his being, he nevertheless would face God “as someone who tried to take seriously, and tried to get others to take seriously, the story of America within the story of the world.”