We are Catholic converts, after being Protestants for 20+ years. I brought a “Battle of Lepanto” cake to Bible Study one October 7. Had set up a crescent of Muslim ships and a cross of Christian ships. NOBODY there knew anything about the Battle of Lepanto!! They were all lifetime Catholics. We converts had to teach them.
The Catholic leadership got away from antagonizing Islam with inconvenient truths, and pretends they are just like us. 9/11 was the West’s reminder of what Islam is.
The Catholic Church changed the name the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary centuries ago (still with Lepanto in mind), now the battle is ignored/downplayed.
Pope Paul VI returned some of the Turkish banners seized during the battle to Turkey in an attempt to calm them during the Cyprus invasion 50 years ago; how did that work out?