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The controversy over mixing religion & politics has not kept religion apart from Gov. Religious groups participate in a wide variety of pol'al activities. But religious groups in the US are not organized as pol'al parties or machines. There is a relation between religious affiliation & party affiliation. The correlation, however, does not usually indicate a 'religious' vote. In part, the relation reflects SES. For Catholics & Jews it is very much a result of awareness of minority status. As minority awareness declines, trends in voting change. There is no pattern of voting for or against candidates because of their religion. The importance of religion in a presidential election cannot be assessed on the basis of other elections. The election of a Catholic president would not change the nature of our Gov, but it would have an effect on US politics. AA.

St. Thomas knew that the voices of human truth must be quiet before the tremendous and wonderful sound of THE WORD. For by THE WORD men can save their own words from vacancy and death, from becoming an affliction to their fellows, a bewilderment and an embarrassment, if not a ruin, to all who heed them or expect to be guided by them. Here I shall devote myself to the necessity of the wisdom of religious knowledge for modern writers and thinkers—to be considered specifically—and to its power especially among those who have clearly submitted their talent and intelligence to the service of The Word, the service of Christ the King.