Conversion in Reverse: How the Ethos of Americanism Converted Catholics

Conversion in Reverse: How the Ethos of of Americanism Converted Catholics explains how the uncritical acceptance by Catholics of the principles of the American founding as completely compatible with the teaching of the Catholic Faith led them over the course of time into the trap of viewing Holy Mother Church through eyes of the world (democracy, pluralism, relativism, materialism, majoritarianism, egalitarianism, feminism) rather than viewing the world through the eyes of the Holy Faith. This is the first volume of a three volume series. The first volume provides a summary of Catholic social teaching concerning the civil state and a thumbnail history of Christendom prior to the rise of the Protestant Revolution and inevitable triumph of the naturalism (reducing all of human activity to the merely natural, material level without any regard for the supernatural) up to the time of the American founding. Volume Two will study the conversion of Catholics to the iron dictates of pluralism and religious indifferentism (one religion is as good as another) in the Nineteenth and early-Twentieth Centuries, discussing how many, although not all, American bishops, served as lackeys and apologists for career politicians. The third volume will concentrate on the triumph of the Americanist spirit at the "Second" Vatican Council and how this triumph has enabled Catholics and non-Catholics in public life who support one abject evil after another. The formatting by Create Space changed the pagination of a few of the chapters. Other than that, however, the text is clean and without problems. Viva Cristo Rey! Viva La Virgen de Guadalupe!

About the Author :
Dr. Thomas A. Droleskey, who was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York, on November 24, 1951, received a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, from Saint John's University, Jamaica, New York, on January 31, 1973, a Master of Arts from the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, and his Doctor of Philosophy from the State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York, on August 5, 1977. Droleskey taught as a full-time faculty member at numerous colleges and universities between September of 1976 and January of 2007, starting with Mohawk Valley Community College in Utica, New York, in the 1976-1977 academic year, and including Illinois State University (1977-1979 and 1986-1987), Allentown College of Saint Francis de Sales (1979-1980), Nassau Community College (1980-1983), Saint Francis College, Brooklyn, New York (1985-1986), Morningside College (1992-1993) and the C. W. Post Campus of Long Island University (1994-1995). Droleskey also served as an adjunct professor of political science at Saint John's University (1982-1992), the C. W. Post Campus of Long Island University (1991-2007) and New York Institute of Technology (1991-1993). Formerly a pro-life activist and candidate for public office, Dr. Droleskey ran for the office of lieutenant governor of the State of New York on the Right to Life Party line in 1986, running also for the office of Supervisor of the Town of Oyster Bay in 1997 and in a primary for the United States senatorial nomination of the Right to Life Party in 1998. Committed to the restoration of the Social Reign of Christ the King and of Mary our Immaculate Queen, hundreds of Droleskey's articles appeared in The Wanderer (1992-2001) and later The Remnant (2002-2006) and Catholic Family News (2004-2006). This writing led to numerous invitations to speak to groups of Catholics across the nation in the 1990s and into the first decade of the Twenty-first century. Droleskey's online publication, www.ChristorChaos.com, is the continuation of a printed journal that began in September of 1996 and continued until June of 2003. Over two thousand articles have appeared online since the debut of the website on February 20, 2004. Married since June 7, 2001, to the former Sharon Collins, Droleskey and wife live with their daughter, Lucy Mary Therese Norma, who was born on March 27, 2002, within the United States of America.