The denial of the influence of the Church's social doctrine in the civil domain, the denial of the rights of God, and a denial of the supernatural order established by God. Pope Leo XIII wrote his encyclical Testem Benevolentiae Nostrae to Cardinal James Gibbons, condemning the false notion of Catholicism that he was working to establish within America, a country with a non-Catholic majority. Americanism is not a condemnation of America but of the false notions as introduced into the faith by American prelates, and are examplafied by people who claim to be Catholic but deny the influence of Christ and His Church in the social sphere. For the original work on this, see Testem Benevolentiae Nostrae by Pope Leo XIII.
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