Posted on 12/18/2013 11:10:23 AM PST by BlatherNaut
"...American conservative Catholics who defend Pope Francis keep saying that Francis is truly orthodox, despite the fact that the liberal US media love him. Maybe they’re right. But the further we go into this pontificate, the more I wonder if liberals understand something about Pope Francis that conservatives do not."
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I’ll admit, I chuckled! A protestant calling another religion “liberal”, best joke I’ve heard on FreeRepublic in days
Protestantism is a general term, not a specific religion. I suspect that most folks around here know that.
Okay a “Calvinist” calling Catholics the liberal religion…is that better??
95% of black Protestants voted for Obama...
Yup.
Like I’ve said here before, I’ve had far more Roman Catholics seeking scripts for oral contraceptives than Calvinists.
But I don’t write prescriptions for BCPs.
While we know that Obama received about 95% of the vote from all blacks of all religions and the non-religious in 2008, we don’t have a breakdown of Christian denominations that the black voters were members of, by vote.
We do know that members of the Catholic denomination voted for Obama, which is typical for the Catholic vote, while the overall Protestant vote went republican, which is typical for the Protestant vote.
We know that America’s largest denomination, Catholic, voted for Obama, and that America’s second largest denomination, Southern Baptist, voted massively, overwhelmingly against Obama.
What percentage of black Catholics voted for him?
Yes, the problem is post-Vatican II. It is certainly understandable why certain Protestant posters here consider the Catholic Church liberal. My guess is if they lived in 1950 they wouldn’t say the same thing.
The Catholic vote has always belonged to the democrat party, and they were known for being liberal and pro-union, pro-FDR, big city machine politics etc, before Vatican II, in fact they have voted republican a few times, since Vatican II.
A big difference being that abortion and the gay agenda were not part of the Democrat party’s platform at that point in time. Besides, I didn’t take the “liberal” comment to mean the Catholic vote.
The Catholic vote is liberal, that is why the left wants to import millions more, the democrat party counts on winning the Catholic voter, and they are correct to do so.
For some reason you keep focusing on the Catholic ‘vote” and I’m talking about post Vatican II words and actions of hierarchy (among other things).
Maybe one of the Protestants who called the Catholic Church liberal could chime in because I’m pretty sure they weren’t referring to the voting records of lay Catholics when describing the Catholic Church as “liberal”.
Yes I focus on the Catholic vote, this is a political site.
I think Catholics vote the way they do, because they correctly read the overall thrust of the denomination’s politics.
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