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.
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Only an atheist believes man could destroy the earth.
Is MAGA pushing the Catholic Church to the left?
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Nope. It’s the Pope that’s pushing the Catholic Church to the left.
The church has aligned itself with power for centuries, royal power first and later political power. They also quietly aligned with other power centers, e.g., the mafia.
Once you realize some major tenants the Roman Church teaches are not scripturally sound, and Boarderline, if not entirely heretical, You can see why people despise the current form of the Roman Church.
When Mormanism and the Jehovah’s witnesses(which I am positive no one here will argue against them being heretics) are in all honestly, more scripturally sound(not by much) then the current Roman Church, there is a problem.
No. Just exposing it as Leftist.
I’d change that slightly to “It’s the Pope(s)”
Precisely. MAGA isn't pushing the Catholic Church anywhere, but the Church's response to conservative secular beliefs and values reveals that the organization is globalist in nature, with all the left-leaning garbage that now entails.
Wouldn’t Vatican II be the responsibility of the men who called for it and then passed it?
You cannot "realize" something that is false.
Not interested in your protestant propaganda, thankyouverymuch. I have already heard more than enough of it.
Tell me: Do you want Catholics to vote for democRATs? Do you think that will Make America Great Again? Does your hatred for Catholics exceed your "love" of America?
Go think about that for a while. The communists at Vox are trying to destroy America. Why are you helping them?
No, they were already there, thanks to leftist divinity schools.
The Vatican just needs to keep its foreign mouth shut regarding the Sovereign USA.
Yep. Meet the new Pope. Same as the old Pope.
JP II was a really solid guy, he went toe-to-toe with the commies. He, along with Margret Thatcher and President Reagan brought down the Soviet Union. His predecessors have really sucked.
All one has to do is read the Bible and wise men should come to the conclusion that the Roman version of ‘church’ is absolutely fairy tale nonsense.
Amazing adults fall for it without even questioning it.
Just believe whatever ‘father’ Joe says - he’s a good man… 👎 🙄
Sure, it’s MAGA, not the last and current Marxist Popes dragging the Catholic Church to the pit of leftism.
No, their Communist, anti-Christic Popes and Cardinals are what is pushing the Catholic Church left.
“””””Do you want Catholics to vote for democRATs? “”””””
They already do usually.
The Catholic Church has been on a leftward march for 60+ years and has embraced liberation theology and now Marxism. John Paul II was the last Pope who understood the dangers of Communism having lived under it. The two most recent Popes both served in Latin America and were steeped in liberation theology and Marxism. The leftward lurch in the Church has nothing to do with MAGA.
Do they get a lot of money from the government for taking care of immigrants? If so, could that be clouding their judgment or at least call into question their motivation.
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