text: "Render to the Father what is the Father's. And render to Caesar what is Caesar's." (Matthew 22:21)
  Saint Paul's Letter to the Romans Chapter 13: 1 & 2: 1  "Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.   
  2  Therefore he who resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. "
  
  Historically the U.S. Flag has 13 Stripes indicating the Original Colonies which gave elevation to Christians (and Catholics) to escape persecution. For Maryland was founded as a Catholic colony. Then there's a common good ordered for the 50 Stars representing Fifty States. Which, a portion of those states not quite at the count of Fifty, were held together in the Union under President Abraham, who did also abolish slavery. Then there are the number of Expeditions (Lewis Clark, the Louisiana Purchase.) And how the U.S. afforded many Catholic Missions to continue