I see a lot of conservatives gloating about this but I think telling observant Catholic liberals and Democrats they’re not wanted or welcome in the Church is not going to work out the way they seem to think it will.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/18/us/targeting-biden-catholic-bishops-advance-controversial-communion-plan.html?referringSource=articleShare …
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It had a very strong partisan identity for a very long time here!
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As Democratic? Maybe, but that always seemed more informal than the real tight bond European & South American churches have had with political parties.
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The French used to have political parties with entire platforms based around anti-clericalism for precisely this reason
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Also why the Church was regarded with such hostility during the French Revolution.
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The Quiet Revolution, where the province took back a lot of power from the Catholic church in Quebec, is probably also rather relevant.
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The Catholic Church - and in particular Opus Dei - was instrumental in Franco’s brutal suppression of political opposition and regional autonomy movements in Spain, leading to the sentencing of tens of thousands of people to forced labor, concentration camps and executions.
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And in Portugal the Catholic Church warmly embraced the barbaric Salazar regime, whose impact on Portugal was similar to that of Pol Pot on Cambodia, although on a smaller scale - reducing it to an agrarian peasant society.
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Hell yeah! If these Big Hat buggers wanna go there, then bring back "Pope Night" and get this pary started. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Night#:~:text=Pope%20Night%20 …(also%20called%20Pope's,in%20the%20colonial%20United%20States.&text=Under%20the%20leadership%20of%20Pope,the%20Stamp%20Act%20of%201765.
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