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 ...
Quote-JFK wanted the 1965 Immigration Act.
Is that so? But that’s bwaycis_
Pardon the pun...
This immigration that we know was one of JFK’s biggest desires to replace the American voter and culture, he wrote a book on it in the 50s and had parts in his party platform in 1960.
Nah it isn’t Trump it is Satan
Up is down, left is right, wrong is right….
80% of priest in the Vatican are filthy degenerate homosexuals. They don’t serve Christ, they serve Satan.
This article is like abused wife syndrome.
they been on the left since well before MAGA
“Social justice” is like “hate crime”; both are unnecessary phrases. Something is either just or unjust; a crime is a crime whether or not hate, love or indifference is the motivation. The extraneous verbiage is simply to empower the thought police-types with usually race-based accusations.
Go f’k yourself… from one of the f’ked up people.
What does “maybe now” mean? Got any evidence for your “maybe now?” You could ask Grok. I did.
Nope. MAGA just documents it and make it public.
Are you denying child molestation was not a huge problem for the church for decades? I mean do I need to furnish evidence? Or was diocese after diocese paying these huge settlements to child grifters? It seems these days it been so exposed folks avoid religion or keep a more watchful eye…. Hence today it may not be the crisis it was years ago.
No.
The Catholic church would not be going to the left if it didn’t want to.
I can count on one hand the number of Catholics I've met, worked with, and been related to that fit your wishful thinking view of Catholics.
Most of them are leftists and vote democrat and have for decades, if not their whole life. It is simply not true that lay Catholics overall lean right.
On behalf of Catholics everywhere, I apologize that you’ve been forced endure the worst of our brethren in your places of employment. However, your anecdotal experience notwithstanding, polling data supports my point about “Catholics in the pews,” i.e., people who actually participate in the Catholic Church.
“Trump’s favorability among Mass-attending Catholics — those who attend Mass daily or once a week — stands at 67% viewing him very or somewhat favorably. Among Catholic voters who attend Mass a few times a year or once a year, the number is 43.5% for very or somewhat favorable.
He is also buoyed in the polling by a gender gap: 62% of male Catholic voters view him favorably, compared with 45% of female Catholic voters. Catholic women voters also gave the president the strongest unfavorable rating at 33%, compared with 23% for males.
Likewise, Trump is viewed very or somewhat favorably by 58% of white Catholic voters, compared with a still significantly large 41.5% favorability among Latino voters. White and Latino Catholic voters are also nearly identical in viewing Trump very unfavorably, at 27.8% and 28.6%, respectively. “
“Catholic Voters Still Back Trump, EWTN News/RealClear Poll Finds”
https://www.ncregister.com/news/catholic-voters-still-back-trump-ewtn-news-realclear-opinion-research-poll-shows
Obviously if you want to talk about the politics of “Catholics” as everyone who self-identifies as such based on some tribal affiliation or having briefly attended a Catholic school 40 years ago or similar loose connection, then maybe you get a different result.
It is also true regarding Jews. They lean left.
This is the reason that religion and politics don’t mix well.
The larger and more centralized a gubmint, the MORE ROTTEN the gubmint.
Church gubmint is NO exception.
And the Catholic Church is not only the church of big hats but of big gubmint.
Are you saying Catholic priests were the only people molesting children for decades? That the Catholic Church invented child molestation?
I’m saying the Catholic Church was targeted by the Catholic-hating propaganda press to paint all Catholic priests as pedophiles while ignoring it everywhere else.
Did you know that Donald Trump is a pedophile? The propaganda press said so, so it must be true.
Not at all. Thats really not the point is it? The era were speaking of was among the most high profile, most blatant, most widespread, most covered up example I can think of. I do not care about other religions…. What concerns me are the flaws of our own. How these scumbags destroyed the faith of countless worshippers. How catholicism has never recovered. How even the actual pedophiles were protected by the church right to the very top. Still continues today.
The Catholic Church has/had no more or less of a pedophilia problem than any other group of people, but your Catholic Derangement Syndrome does not care.
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