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“The Catholic Church… comes not to destroy the natural, but to fulfill—to purify, elevate, direct, and invigorate it. That is, she comes to give us precisely the help we need, and as our country is the future hope of the world, so is Catholicity the future hope of our country; and it is through Catholicity that bringing the supernatural to the aid of the natural, that the present evils which afflict us, are to be removed, and the country is to be enabled to perform its civilizing mission for the world.”
Orestes A. Brownson (1803-1876)
Born in New England, Orestes Augustus Brownson was a writer, editor, lecturer, political and religious reformer, and a convert to Catholicism. His collected writings number twenty volumes.
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