The Other Americans: Loyalists, Confederates, & Other Dissenters ~ Charles Coulombe

About this sermon

What happens when you read American history—Columbus Day, the Revolution, the Civil War, Reconstruction, Prohibition, the New Deal—through a Catholic lens? In this talk, we trace the long continuity from the English Reformation and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms through the Glorious Revolution, the Stamp Act crisis, the Quebec Act, and the American War for Independence, asking a surprising question: Was there ever a clearly “Catholic side” in U.S. politics? Along the way we meet figures and flashpoints: the Loyalists and Jacobites, Charles II and James II, Cromwell and William of Orange, George III, Charles Carroll, Washington and Hancock, Flora MacDonald, the French & Indian War, the Proclamation of 1763, the Confederacy, Pius IX, Father Coughlin, Dorothy Day, and Msgr. John A. Ryan. We explore how Catholics were often split by class and region, why emancipation and evangelization lagged, and how Americanism shaped the 20th century—from Boston pews to New Deal radio. Whether you’re studying the Catholic role in American history or rethinking national myths—from Norman Rockwell nostalgia to today’s “ongoing revolution” narrative—this deep dive connects the dots between Columbus Day, Loyalists vs. Patriots, Union vs. Confederacy, and the Catholic Worker era. Stay to the end for the core challenge: loving and evangelizing a nation whose political DNA did not begin Catholic—and asking what that means now. 00:00 – Cold open 00:07 – Welcome & topic: “The Other Americans—Loyalists, Confederates & Dissenters” 00:54 – Columbus Day, Columbus as symbol & shifting narratives 03:03 – Mid-century civic myth: flags, chaplains, Boy Scouts, Norman Rockwell 06:19 – The new “ongoing revolution” storyline (rights as rolling revolution) 09:20 – Catholic responses: Americanism & John Courtney Murray; Chaput & Gomez 12:06 – Continuity: English roots & the “Cousins’ Wars” view of history 15:03 – Wars of the Roses → Tudors → English Reformation (property & elites) 17:15 – Form vs. substance: keeping pageantry, changing doctrine 18:22 – Wars of the Three Kingdoms; Puritans vs. Royalists; impact in colonies 20:04 – Restoration fallout in America: Carolinas & Pennsylvania 21:08 – James II, New Amsterdam → New York; Dominion of New England 23:15 – 1688 Glorious Revolution & colonial backlash 25:18 – Where Catholics were legal (MD, PA, DE) & penal laws elsewhere 27:02 – Jacobites in America; loyalty to George post-pardon 28:02 – French & Indian War: Proclamation of 1763 & the Quebec Act (1774) 29:51 – Stamp Act networks; colonial oligarchies & Revolution framing 31:11 – Congress denounces Quebec Act; Catholics split by class & assimilation 33:10 – Loyalist/Patriot geography echoes later in Civil War alignments 34:41 – Was rebellion morally necessary? Did Catholics have a “dog in the fight”? 36:05 – Revolutionary policing & suppression of Loyalists 37:22 – Post-1783: Catholic civil rights expand; slow evangelization 38:15 – Antebellum era: abolition, subsidiarity, and Catholics on both sides 39:26 – Southern Catholic influence; Confederacy, Pius IX & Jefferson Davis 44:00 – 1865–1941: culture, letters, & rising anti-Catholic currents 47:03 – Few Catholic critiques; Boston Catholicism aside 51:05 – Belloc’s prediction: convert America or be converted by it 51:30 – The Great Depression: Coughlin, Dorothy Day, Msgr. John Ryan 55:16 – Al Smith vs. FDR; New Deal coalitions & Catholic positioning 56:28 – The romance of lost causes & why they endure 59:01 – Final challenge: love the nation, evangelize the nation 1:00:37 – End http://store.catholicism.org/audio-and-video/conference-talks/2014/ #CatholicHistory #AmericanHistory #ColumbusDay #Loyalists #Confederacy #GloriousRevolution #Jacobites #QuebecAct #FrenchAndIndianWar #CivilWar #PiusIX #DorothyDay #JohnCourtneyMurray #NewDeal #Prohibition #Reformation #EnglishCivilWar #CousinsWars #Americanism #CatholicWorker 🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴 Support Catholic Businesses here - https://sensusfidelium.com/catholic-businesses/ Sensus Fidelium Press - https://sensusfideliumpress.com/ Sensus Fidelium Apps - https://sensusfidelium.tv/ Support Sensus Fidelium - https://sensusfidelium.com/donate-support/ 🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴 🙏🏻PLEASE HELP OUR CHANNEL GROW 🙏🏻 ▶️ 1. Become a Channel Patron: https://www.patreon.com/SensusFidelium ▶️ 2. Visit the website https://www.sensusfidelium.us for Gueranger, Saint of the Day, Apologetics, Meditation by the Saints, Scripture Study and more. ▶️ 3. BitChute --- https://www.bitchute.com/channel/Sensus_Fidelium/ ▶️ 4. Paypal, Bitcoin, Anedot, Stripe, Square & PO Box donations - https://sensusfidelium.us/donate-support/ ▶️ 5. YouTube: Click Subscribe, then Click "Notification Bell" = 🔔 ▶️ 6. Please share this video 📲, and help others find Christ inside the Catholic Church! Please share this video on Facebook and Twitter using the share button.