Plenty of Catholics are happy to throw in with the Evangelicals. Dump the wishy-wishy social justice aspects of Catholic Social teaching, go hardline on sexual morality (which they are happy to back up with a gajillion encyclicals because the new testament is almost totally void of it), and argue that the Catholic church ought to lash it…
Plenty of Catholics are happy to throw in with the Evangelicals. Dump the wishy-wishy social justice aspects of Catholic Social teaching, go hardline on sexual morality (which they are happy to back up with a gajillion encyclicals because the new testament is almost totally void of it), and argue that the Catholic church ought to lash itself to the Republican party to ensure cultural and political relevance (see DeSantis). They see the "normie" Catholics as "cafeteria Catholics".
Of course, if the the Evangelical/Catholic right coalition ever came to power, the Catholics would be jettisoned faster than you can say transubstantiation. I mean Pence an Pompeo are both former Catholics who found Evangelicalism more...animating. And so many of Catholics are Hispanic, I mean, that's gonna make them nervous. And then there's that awkward stuff with the latest pope saying "maybe helping poor people should be a bigger priority than denying "the gays" communion". I mean, they wont let that stand! That sounds socialist to me!
A story from my parenting days: I had been talking with my young daughter, who is a beautiful ethnic mixture of African-American, Mexican-American, Native American, and Caucasian, about Jesus. We are Catholic. I told her that Jesus had brown skin like her because he lived in a part of the world where people had brown skin. She went across the street to play with her friend, whose blond-haired, blue-eyed family would probably now be described as White Nationalist Call-me-Christians who didn't know much about what Jesus really taught. My daughter came back home and said, "Mom, Tanya's mom said Jesus did NOT have brown skin!" I just said to her, "Well, honey, Tanya's mom is wrong."
Plenty of Catholics are happy to throw in with the Evangelicals. Dump the wishy-wishy social justice aspects of Catholic Social teaching, go hardline on sexual morality (which they are happy to back up with a gajillion encyclicals because the new testament is almost totally void of it), and argue that the Catholic church ought to lash itself to the Republican party to ensure cultural and political relevance (see DeSantis). They see the "normie" Catholics as "cafeteria Catholics".
Of course, if the the Evangelical/Catholic right coalition ever came to power, the Catholics would be jettisoned faster than you can say transubstantiation. I mean Pence an Pompeo are both former Catholics who found Evangelicalism more...animating. And so many of Catholics are Hispanic, I mean, that's gonna make them nervous. And then there's that awkward stuff with the latest pope saying "maybe helping poor people should be a bigger priority than denying "the gays" communion". I mean, they wont let that stand! That sounds socialist to me!
I have found that to now be the case.
A story from my parenting days: I had been talking with my young daughter, who is a beautiful ethnic mixture of African-American, Mexican-American, Native American, and Caucasian, about Jesus. We are Catholic. I told her that Jesus had brown skin like her because he lived in a part of the world where people had brown skin. She went across the street to play with her friend, whose blond-haired, blue-eyed family would probably now be described as White Nationalist Call-me-Christians who didn't know much about what Jesus really taught. My daughter came back home and said, "Mom, Tanya's mom said Jesus did NOT have brown skin!" I just said to her, "Well, honey, Tanya's mom is wrong."