"Persephone was sculpted in Rome and installed atop the Capitol on the 47th anniversary of the death of America’s first Roman Catholic bishop, John Carroll..
The event was heralded by 47 gunshots, thirty five from a field battery on Capitol Hill, twelve from the surrounding forts..
The Capitol, incidentally, is erected on property owned by Bishop Carroll’s family. In the 1663 Maryland records, the exact site was recorded under the title Rome, its owner a man named Pope..
Roman Catholicism is a universal secular government domiciled at the Vatican City State in Rome. Its sovereign, the Pope, is an absolute ruler who is deemed infallible..
In the political context, the Roman Catholic Church has been determined by the United States District courts to be a foreign State (U.S. court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, case No. 85-1309)..
The Roman Catholic Church State, if it may so be called, requires universal obedience to the decrees of its omnipotent pope and his various councils..
Vatican Council II’s Constitutions on the Church (1964) requires secular officials, whoever they are, to expend all their energy for the growth of the church ad its continuous sanctification.. Are the American people being ruled by a foreign sovereign for whom the United States is a useful tool in his management of world order?."