Some of the greatest enemies of the Church have been fallen-away Catholics:  Stalin, Hitler, etc.  There's a saying corruptio optimi pessima, that the corruption of the best is the worst.  When a Catholic goes bad, he goes really bad.  I find that the most hostile anti-Catholics among Protestants tend to be fallen-away Catholics.

Actually, this assertion is not all that far-fetched.  There is a core of three heavily Catholic rural counties (Nelson, Marion, and Larue) in central Kentucky that were settled by English Catholics --- not Irish, not German, not French, but English.  The first see-city west of the Alleghenies was Bardstown in Nelson County.  This later became the Archdiocese of Louisville and the see was transferred to the larger city about 50 miles north.  Hodgenville, where Lincoln was born, is in Larue County.  So it's entirely possible.

It should come as no surprise that Protestant (and probably Masonic) biographers, as well as secular ones, would not disclose this fact about Lincoln.  The events of George Washington's final days are too well-known to need repeating here, but are similarly denied by secular historians.

Some of the greatest enemies of the Church have been fallen-away Catholics:  Stalin, Hitler, etc.  There's a saying corruptio optimi pessima, that the corruption of the best is the worst.  When a Catholic goes bad, he goes really bad.  I find that the most hostile anti-Catholics among Protestants tend to be fallen-away Catholics.

Yes, sadly this is true, and the children and even grandchildren of an ex-Catholic tend to be most hostile toward Catholics.

Many years ago, I was talking with a young man who delighted in repeating the following story from his youth. As a youth, he had befriended a Catholic youth from his neighborhood who had given him a small crucifix. He placed this cross in his top dresser drawer where he collected things of interest. He would often hold it, caressing it. Sometimes, he would fall asleep holding the cross and would then find it in the morning hidden underneath his pillow. One day his ex-Catholic grandma whose husband was a Protestant minister visited his family. A few days later, he noticed that the cross was missing. He checked his pillow and his dresser drawer. It was nowhere to be seen.

A few years later, shortly after his grandma died, he found that very crucifix near her bedside in a drawer. She had bent it in two showing not only a fierce hatred toward Catholicism, but also a hatred of the Holy Cross. He remained hostile toward Catholics and ultimately married a pastor's daughter who was likewise very anti-Catholic.

The sins of a father are passed on from generation to generation.

This is why it is very important to be good examples especially toward our children and grandchildren.

p.s. My family descended from some pioneers who lived in the same village in Kentucky where the young Abe Lincoln lived. One spring day, the young Abe had fallen into a swollen river. My ancestors from a large Catholic family, formed a human chain and rescued him. Most likely, his family and ours attended Mass together. What a shame that Abe did not persevere in his Catholic faith! Wasn't he warned of his impending death? Did he have a chance to repent?

Leave it to Incredulous, one of this site's thickest and least credible members, to revive a rumor that was decisively dismissed and debunked fewer than sixty days ago on pages 3 and 4 of this thread. If anyone reading the present thread actually prefers facts to fantasies, let him read or reread the linked pages.

There is no credible evidence that Lincoln was ever a Catholic, was ever baptized, or ever held the Catholic faith in anything but contempt. Admire him or loathe him as you will, but have the wits and maturity to realize that hearsay isn't magically transformed into gospel truth simply because the tag "bishop" or "anonymous priest" gets tacked onto some idle gossip's unsupported claims.

For better or worse, Ladislaus, the claim that Lincoln was ever a Catholic amounts to hearsay; that is, it is not substantiated by formal docuмentation of any sort. What is more, Lincoln himself asserted that he was never baptized, and Mary Todd Lincoln vehemently seconded that assertion to the end of her own life.

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You say the above, Claudel, on that other thread you linked to.  But Incredulous did have a few references cited.  Which is about as much as would be available since the fix was in to cover Lincoln's Catholicism.  He was, indeed, born and brought up in early youth in the "Holy Land"-Catholic section of central KY, before moving out of state when still young.  Big deal that he and his wife denied his baptism, etc.  It worked politically.  Besides, that, perhaps, that is all Mary Todd knew of him - as much as he exactly was pleased to tell her, or maybe they both agreed to put some kind of space between him and Christianity.  Why is it you are so against Lincoln being Catholic?  Or is there something else to this?    

Leave it to Incredulous, one of this site's thickest and least credible members, to revive a rumor that was decisively dismissed and debunked fewer than sixty days ago on pages 3 and 4 of this thread. If anyone reading the present thread actually prefers facts to fantasies, let him read or reread the linked pages.

There is no credible evidence that Lincoln was ever a Catholic, was ever baptized, or ever held the Catholic faith in anything but contempt. Admire him or loathe him as you will, but have the wits and maturity to realize that hearsay isn't magically transformed into gospel truth simply because the tag "bishop" or "anonymous priest" gets tacked onto some idle gossip's unsupported claims.

Claudel,

Thank you for your comments.

It is Lent and I will try to be charitable.

You lack discernment.

You should work on this fault during this Lent.  It may be your last.  

Pray to the Holy Ghost for the Seven Gifts, especially that of Wisdom.