Lessons from the Kulturkampf CWN - July 03, 2012 At MercatorNet,
Michael Cook recalls the history of Otto von Bismarck’s effort
to eliminate the power of the Catholic Church in Germany, and
notes that the effort ultimately failed. Repression, far from
crippling the Church, had united it. Bismarck imposed a series
of repressive laws, and the Church undoubtedly suffered. But in
suffering, the faithful gained a sense of solidarity, and
eventually forced the policies reversed. Catholics in Prussia
lost everything. A few years later they got it back. And what
they had lost in property they gained in solidarity. An appeal
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