The Catholics I know abhor the “social justice” garbage that pours from the pulpit on Sunday. They stay for other reasons, mostly that they have been persuaded that the Church is their only hope of salvation. They have been scared good and proper in their childhood and dare not think these things out for themselves.
This is way off base, he equates becoming an “American” Catholic as leading to being a democrat voter, when it is the opposite, the more American a Catholic becomes, the more likely he is to vote like a Southern, all-American Protestant.
It is Catholic foreignness which is the more liberal, and it always has been, today, and a 100 years ago, and a 150 years ago.
Catholics are to the left of the non-Catholic Christians, that is the problem, they move right by becoming more American, not less.
Acquaintances and family members who profess to be devout Catholics who consistently invoke the blessings of Jesus Christ to those around them, and in the same conservation praise Barack Obama for all he has done. Pretty much in the same manner that Notre Dame welcomed Obama to their holy house.
So many good straight lines; so little time.
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