I know a wonderful, pious and sweet Catholic lady from Chicago.
A few years ago, I asked her about how she can support dems when they’re all pro-abortion. She just shrugged and changed the subject (”I don’t think the other side is any better”, she says).
Votes straight ‘D’ up and down any ticket now and for her whole life. I’m sure she’ll still vote that way after she passes. She’d never hurt a fly, and will give her last mite to anyone in need.
Always votes for more taxes. Then complains about taxes.
The only thing I can think of is ‘cognitive dissonance’. She’s worth praying for, and this is what we’re up against.
Yes, sad, isn’t it?
May I ask if your friend attends church every week.
Roughly half of U.S. Catholics have, for years, been no friend to the traditional Catholic Church, that most of us knew who are old enough to remember.
That odd roughly half are no longer faithful to the Catholic Church, faith or practices, but like to use the label “Catholic” anyway, since it now now is largely connected to being LIBERAL, at least in the Public Square of Opinion.
It’s the perfect ruse. Catholic. Universal. Church.
Pretty perfect Perch to VIRTUE SIGNAL for chortling globalist aims and Marxist tactical language to achieve them.
Whether these “Catholics” are ignoramuses, by way of liberal Public Education, or really rotten *new* catachesis, they are led away, or choose to be lead away, from all that for 2000 years has been the traditional Catholic Church of the Ages.
That odd rough half support the “New” Catholic church that’s been careening through the West, for the last 60 years.
Apologies for the rant... not classy. (But, danged accurate and only a fraction of the story.)
Rita