***Sadly, your last paragraph has yet to unfold. Most RCs I know are still hardcore Dems and thats because they are what I call, “Catholic in Name Only.” They think they are Catholic, but are CLUEless.***
There are many of those, but they are ageing and generally not replacing themselves with CINOs. My wife (the only human child of her mother) and I are what I’d refer to as generally strong and conservative Catholics. Her mother only goes to church because my wife’s stepfather got hit on while going to church by another CINO. He only goes to church because, well, it doesn’t interfere with his golf and poker and because it’s a habit.
He is old school UAW and votes the ticket each election that the union prints up and he goes down to the union hall to pick up. Democrat all the way. He is backing Obama, by the way, even though he is pointedly bigoted and drops the n-word, especially while watching the news. He maintains these opposed points of view with the ease that most liberals do.
We are in a relatively strong and orthodox and smaller parish, although some of the prime movers are liberal Democrats (they take a political ribbing). We don’t currently have any men in the seminary, although we have had a number in the past.
We have a rough road yet; there are a lot of good intentioned people that make the world worse - the road to hell is paved with good intentions (no pun intended).
The interesting thing about Catholic conservatism is that it’s actually quite easy - it’s all spelled out in the Catechism and backed up with Scripture. God bless and thanks.
Well I can’t argue with you on any of this. I remember many years ago, one of my friends, a pastor in our church (he is not the pastor of another church), told me that we had “a great mission field” right in our own church. I think that is true for many churches.
As I’ve always said, I think God’s remnant is everywhere and even in very unlikely places. The spirit knows the spirit however, and the sheep hear His voice and He knows where His sheep are and who they are.