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Posted on 02/10/2026 6:07:57 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
A quiet cold war is happening across America — one that many Americans might not be aware of if they’re not tuned into the changes underway in America’s Christian communities.
On one side is the religious right’s use of scripture and faith to justify and defend President Donald Trump’s agenda — and growing Christian nationalist sentiment. On the other side is the reshaping of the American Catholic Church, under Pope Leo XIV.
Through new appointments, orders to his bishops to speak out about immigration, and public comments critiquing the direction of the US under Trump, the pope is setting up his bishops and priests to be evangelizers, to be vocal about human dignity, and to be a counterweight to the authoritarian and nationalist tendencies of the right.
While the church has long played a role in US politics, Pope Leo’s interventions, according to Christopher Hale, a Catholic writer and political activist who writes the Letters from Leo Substack, represent something new.
In the absence of a well-organized “religious left” in America, he told me, Leo’s moves to reform and shake up the American Catholic Church are reinvigorating a “Catholic left” to engage in the moral struggles of the 2020s, specifically around immigration and creeping authoritarianism.
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
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Just as well. They’re pretty f’ked-up people.
Sad but true.
I hear ya’!
yes this is happening csth churvh gone to the dogs sucking up to wokeism and “ social justice”
Marxism invaded the church after WWII
xcath here but born again & baptized in the Holy Spirit
The Catholics are going to the left like every leftist. The devil.
Are you saying that I’m a “pretty f’ked-up” person? Really?
Do you want me to start voting for democRATs? Really?
You need to re-think your life, little one.
What is being revealed is what is already there.
The Catholic Church has been moving left for decades.
The big move began in 2011
**Are you saying that I’m a “pretty f’ked-up” person? Really?**
Only if you bang choir boys.
The Boomer Catholics who pushed Vatican II are passing away.
The nextgen of Catholics are traditional and won’t stand for the nonsense we’ve seen for decades.
Even newly-ordained Priests who may not be “trads” don’t like the divisiveness that The Last Administration pushed.
Eh.. would the catholics robbing tax payers, forcing them to pay tribute to their human trafficking illegal migrant charities, ie certified fascists inching to Nazi structures, be pushed to Hitler’s buddy Stalin instead by Trump?
The rhetoric these days is absolutely crazy.
Thenosychopathy of the woke blaming biology seem to come from pedo priests with AIDS blaming biology the same, when the real disease is the psychopathy, the biological one being a victim and scapegoat at this point.
It’s a silly article... generating silly comments in this thread. Much of the Catholic hierarchy leans left. Most priests over age 55 or so lean left. This is not news. I’m sure many if not most of them don’t like MAGA. But the Catholics who show up for Mass on Sunday lean right and vote MAGA, and that’s not changing. Don’t confuse nonsense spouted by some bishop or cardinal with the views of the folks in the pews.
Liberal Christianity, like liberalism in any religion, isn’t sustainable. If your attitude is “it’s all good,” then why bother? So, no, “Catholics” are not swinging left.
“and to be a counterweight to the authoritarian and nationalist tendencies of the right.“
This absolute intolerance for opposing opinion is going to lead to bloodshed. It has to or we lose our law and freedom. Reshaping a 2000 yr old religion to accept that which is anathema to it? Monstrous
It started even before JP II’s body got cold.
Oh Boy...
Pizza?
Get yer mind out of the sewer, little one.
I’d further recommend that “Vox” is the voice of communists ... and their #1 mission is to destroy America. You’re facilitating their mission. Shame on you.
Some people reflexively hate “Rome” ... they’re simply following their programming. It’s sad, really. Many of them are otherwise intelligent people. On this one topic, they’re nuts.
The Church has been to the Left for most of my adult life.
Or, at least, that’s when I noticed it.
Yep!!
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