The Catholic Church was at its strongest point in this country's history for about 100 years -- from the 1850s through the 1950s. One reason for this was that the Catholic Church had gone to such great lengths to demonstrate its revulsion of "popular American culture" in those days (a dominant Protestant culture, for the most part). The Church even went so far as to establish its own parochial schools and hospitals, specifically to erect a barrier between its own faith/morals and those of the country at large.
That all came crashing down in just a couple of decades after 1960.
The Catholic Church has no business involving itself in the American political and cultural scene until it figures out what it means to be Catholic, first and foremost.
>>to demonstrate its revulsion of “popular American culture” in those days (a dominant Protestant culture, for the most part)
The Roman Catholic Church has never been a church of the common folk. It is a church that celebrates wealth and power and the commonness of American Protestantism is the ultimate insult to an organization of hierarchical and professional priests who set themselves so far apart from humanity that they do not even marry.
Seeing that church being drawn to the Liberation Theology in the 1960s makes sense since the communist leaders talk the same talk: that they are of the people, but that they deserve better than the common folk. Obama and his Progressive ilk say the same thing, and behave with the same degree of blatant hypocrisy.
The Catholic Church faced off with the unbelieving Jews in Hollywood in 1933, and won. The Legion of Decency and the Production Code crumbled when the Catholic Church began to disintegrate during the Council. Both effectively evaporated in 1966, when “The Pawnbroker” was released.
The Catholic Church faced off with unbelieving Jews in the battle over abortion, and lost, because no one was willing to point out that the pro-abortion movement consisted almost entirely of Jews who were revolutionaries. Eighty-percent of abortionists have been unbelieving Jews. Instead, the Catholics confined themselves to reiterating that unborn babies are human beings, and are alive, as though anybody (other than ignorant 14-year-old girls) was unaware of those facts.
The Catholic bishops have spent the 45 years since the abortion battle started reassuring Catholics that it is their duty to vote Democrat. That’s why Wuerl, Chaput, Dolan, O’Malley, Cupich, DiNardo, Gomez, McElroy, and all but about ten bishops, insist that pro-abortion politicians must be given Communion. They are all on the government teat. They sell the Eucharist for taxpayers’ dollars.