“Everybody should know that we have for our mission to convert the world, including the inhabitants of the United States, the people of the cities, and the people of the country, the officers of the navy and the marines, commanders of the army, the Legislatures, the Senate, the Cabinet, the President, and all!” John Hughes, Roman Catholic bishop of New York, during a homily in 1850 at Manhattan’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral.
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