The Fruits of the Mexican-American War

In Thoughts at the Alamo , today’s second “On the Square” article, George Weigel argues that the Mexican-American war was “from one point of view, a war by what was a sometimes-militantly Protestant country against what had long been a deeply Catholic country.” But it helped the Church in some, unexpected, ways.

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