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.
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.