This is something that always struck me as strange, coming from a conservative Catholic family, is how people in my family don’t recognize that they’ve been in the crosshairs before and very well could be again. But I suppose that’s all fairly distant to them, and they don’t connect that to other targets of conservative hate. Especially since the right took on anti-abortion views and made it mainstream instead of a fringe issue that only Catholics cared about because of some bullshit Agustine wrote.
There was a lot of conservative infiltration of the Catholic Church in the US, partially spearheaded internally by organizations like Opus Dei (which was founded in Spain and which was aligned closely with Franco’s fascists). The Reagan-era strategy of creating an alliance of conservative Catholics and fundies by swinging the fundies to an anti-abortion stance was another, external part of it.
Yes, but also, the Catholic Church is and always has been a conservative institution, and doesn’t really need infiltration to be so. Anecdotally, my family has been Catholic for hundreds of years, literally the reason some of them came to America was because of Otto von Bismarck’s opposition to Catholicism, and they are diehard Republicans.
This is something that always struck me as strange, coming from a conservative Catholic family, is how people in my family don’t recognize that they’ve been in the crosshairs before and very well could be again. But I suppose that’s all fairly distant to them, and they don’t connect that to other targets of conservative hate. Especially since the right took on anti-abortion views and made it mainstream instead of a fringe issue that only Catholics cared about because of some bullshit Agustine wrote.
There was a lot of conservative infiltration of the Catholic Church in the US, partially spearheaded internally by organizations like Opus Dei (which was founded in Spain and which was aligned closely with Franco’s fascists). The Reagan-era strategy of creating an alliance of conservative Catholics and fundies by swinging the fundies to an anti-abortion stance was another, external part of it.
Yes, but also, the Catholic Church is and always has been a conservative institution, and doesn’t really need infiltration to be so. Anecdotally, my family has been Catholic for hundreds of years, literally the reason some of them came to America was because of Otto von Bismarck’s opposition to Catholicism, and they are diehard Republicans.