Wow! Who made that statement?  It sounds like a truth and an error all in one sentence?  It is like the scheme used by the masonic's in the church, the infi"traitors".  

Question? WHO is to maintain separation of church and state?  Catholics do no such thing.  We are True. Who makes the separation?  Church or state?  State.  they will have nothing to do with religion or morals at this time.  They want separation to do as the please and call crime, no crime.  So, the church says 2 +2 =4, because the state does not believe it we the church are supposed to accept/tolerate that? No!

that sentence is very suspicious!!

It would be horrible to live under a non-Catholic state which had an official false religion. A secular state isn't always a picnic, either. The next best thing to a Catholic state is one where,at minimum, natural virtues are regarded and upheld and the Church has rights. That is less likely to happen where there is an official national religion.

We can't live in a perfect world and God hasn't provided or allowed for a Catholic nation to rise in our times, yet. Maybe He will, I hope and pray, but we make do with what we have and trust in His Providence.

It came up during a discussion.  I assume the Catholic Church would not defend Mormonism as being the moral authority that the state looks to for its moral guidance.

Philosophically speaking, would the Church support the separation of church and state under such conditions to protect her own members from being subjected to coercion from a false religion?

In other words, is separation of church and state a good idea when the "church" is not the one, true, Catholic Church?

Marsha

No, because it is impossible for the state to be without a religious ideology. "Separation of Church and State" is atheism and liberalism as the state religion. That is why modern "secular" states tirelessly promote atheism and liberalism while oppressing Catholicism.