Guy who doesn't know anything about catholicism: uhhh did radical and sudden change on a short timeline just occur within the catholic church hierarchy?

April 10, 2026 - 21:03 UTC

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The thing about the Catholic Church do not map cleanly to the Conservative-Liberal politics that dominate America. The Church, to oversimplify, is extremely left-wing economically, but conservative socially (but even then there are multiple exceptions to these rules).
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Statistically, American Catholics are unusual in that they are roughly evenly divided across the political spectrum. This is a direct result of this. Abortion has historically been used as a wedge issue to align American Catholics and Evangelicals. In fact, up until around the 60's,
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I see him as defending the Catholic Church against Christian Nationalist heresy so no change in the church at all.
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Nothing happens suddenly.

The Italians talk about the Rule of the Three Popes.

Pope 1: Never! The Church has always condemned this.
Pope 2: Not in my lifetime!
Pope 3: Thus the Church has always so taught...
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But literally nothing has happened. What heโ€™s saying is bog-standard, and only remarkable from the point of view of American media.
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