July 25, 2003 journal, American Freedom vs Catholic power, hip fractures for drinkers of milk as reported in yesterday's journal quoting from Hallelujah Acres Health Bulletin. I've never broken a bone in my life, thank the Lord. There is surely something wrong with our milk when people's bones are like paper. It may however be the protein and beef we eat. A friend handed me a book entitled ‘American freedom and Catholic power by Paul Blanchard’ published by the Beacon Press 55 years ago that warns the public of the danger of the Catholic Church being political or governmental. So far the book places the Roman Catholic Church into the category of a state more than it is a church and it's very well said. It is my opinion the Catholic Church is a front organization for Roman power and control of the world. The Pope has the most power over the United States and it is the Catholic goddess that graces our capital building in Washington D.C. since about 1850. I quote the introduction, "The duty to speak-Probably no phase of our life is in greater need of candid discussion than the relationship of the Roman Catholic Church to American institutions, and certainly no important factor in our life has been more consistently neglected by re-sponsible writers. The Catholic issue is not an easy subject to discuss objectively because most Americans have automatically accepted their attitudes on the subject from their parents, and they do not want those attitudes disturbed. They are Catholic or they are not Catholic. If they are Catholic, they tend to view their own church with flavor, and its critics with suspicion. If they are not Catholic, they tend to reverse the process and view all distinctively Catholic politics with doubt. American Catholics and American non Catholics both tend to leave the discussion of religious differences to denominational bigots; and many Americans have never had an opportunity to hear a reasoned and temperate discussion of the place of Catholic power in our national life. The policy of mutual silence about religious differences is a reasonable policy in manners of personal faith; but when it comes to matters of political, medical and educational principle, silence may be directly contrary to public welfare.When a church enters the arena of controversial social policy and attempts to control the judgment of its own people (and of other people) on foreign affairs, social hygiene, public education and modern science, it must be reckoned with as an organ of political and cultural power. It is in that sense that I shall discuss Catholic power in this book. The Catholic problem as I see it is not primarily a religious problem: it is an institutional and political problem. It is a manner of the use and abuse of power by an organization that is not only a church but is a state within a state, and a state above a state. There is no doubt that the American Catholic hierarchy has entered the political arena, and that it is becoming more and more aggressive in the extending the frontiers of Catholic authority into the fields of medicine, education and foreign policy. In the name of religion, the hierarchy fights birth control and divorce laws in all states. It tells Catholic doctors, nurses, judges, teachers and legislators what they can and cannot do in many of the controversial phases of their professional conduct. It segregates Catholic children from the rest of the community in a separate school system, and sensors the cultural diet of their children. The use is the political power of some 26 million official American Catholics to bring American foreign policy into line with Vatican temporal interest". The Catholic Church today is about 24% or more in America, about 70 million people. The Catholics worldwide are about 1 billion. Be not deceived by works! "These thinks should be talked about freely because they are too important to be ignored. Yet it must be admitted that millions of Americans are afraid to talk about them frankly".