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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The religious right has devoted a substantial amount of effort to proving religious obligations are secondary to partisan politics; the American trend towards secularism is not unrelated.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/05/americans-religion-rightwing-politics-decline …
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If that’s the result it will surely increase conservative Catholics sense of siege, but you can’t kick everyone out of your house and then whine about being lonely. I mean you can I guess.
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Would be good to talk to a historian of Catholicism but my sense is that USA has been a bit exceptional in church not having partisan identity (until now) -- and that impact of it being partisan in Europe & South America is fiercer anti-Catholicism.
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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 catholic church was extremely tightly connected the Dems in the antebellum era
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Yeah, but its not like they were denying communion to Whigs and Republicans on policy grounds. The current situation seems like a real escalation.
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