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The point is that Michael Voris is a monarchist. He wrote a fairly interesting piece years ago outlining the social structure of his ideal society -- equites and peasants, dukes and barons, with an emperor uber alles. I imagine he has the Hapsburg coat of arms on his bed sheets.

Voris errs in conflating one form of government (republicanism) with heresy versus his ideal, which happens to be monarchism, in order to make his ideal the only moral option...But there is nothing distinctly Catholic or Protestant about any form of government, there having been Catholics and Protestant monarchies, and Catholic and Protestant republics, all in their turn.

And now, an official Catholic word on the subject:

"The Empire, the Monarchy, and the Republic. By giving one's self up to abstractions, one could at length conclude which is the best of these forms, considered in themselves; and in all truth it may be affirmed that each of them is good, provided it lead straight to its end—that is to say, to the common good for which social authority is constituted."

~Pope Leo XIII, in Au Mileu Des Sollicitudes.

Voris errs in conflating one form of government (republicanism) with heresy versus his ideal, which happens to be monarchism, in order to make his ideal the only moral option

Well said, and your response, in general was cogent.

Basically, a Catholic monarchist strives to disparage the Enlightenment, an essential underpinning of the American Revolution, even blaming it for the murderous Terrors of the French Revolution!

Pretty incoherent stuff. This guy is grasping at straws. The fact that there was widespread anti-Catholic sentiment in the colonies at the time of the Revolution does not, in the broader analysis, support to this guy's rather expansive and whimsical thesis.