Excerpt from In Exit Israel, Vol. 1: An Historical Novel
There Is a side to the History of the French Revolution which Is too generally overlooked - Its ecclesiastical side.
Under the ancien regime, the disadvantages of an Establishment produced a strong party of liberal Catholics prepared for a radical change In the relations between Church and State.
It was this party which organised that remarkable Constitutional Church, at once Republican and Catholic, which sustained Religion through the Reign of Terror, and which Pope Pius VII and Napoleon I combined to overthrow.
My object in writing this story is to Illustrate the currents of feeling In the State and Church of France in 1789, currents not altogether unlike those now circulating in our own.
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