"Bernadette Soubrious was chosen out of all the earth to proclaim the Immaculate Conception to the world by the Immaculate Conception herself, and with this solemn proclamation of the Immaculate Conception she is indissolubly linked throughout all future ages. But the Immaculate Conception is the sole national Patron of the American Church. Moreover, America is the only large nation - as far as my information goes, the only nation - on earth that possesses the Immaculate Conception for its National Patron. In a very particular sense, therefore, America is bound to the Immaculate Conception as...