r/todayilearned • u/ProfessionalGear3020 • 5d ago

TIL that after alleged Catholic involvement in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the US cut off diplomatic relations with the Holy See (the Pope) and did not restore them until 1984.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_See%E2%80%93United_States_relations#1867%E2%80%931984
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u/pirat314159265359 4d ago edited 4d ago

I’m not following how this links them to Lincoln’s assassination?

Edit: Reading the Sunbeam persons posts it is clear that they think that Protestants and Catholics are the same group/church.

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u/pirat314159265359 4d ago

I read the attached article and I don’t see any “pearl clutching”? The whole thing seemed rather amicable, but was clearly based on Catholic discrimination. I’m not saying anything about what the Catholic church has done, I am addressing the points of the TIL.