Posted on 03/21/2013 7:44:10 PM PDT by Morgana
White Catholics have always voted democrat, recently, as the whites leave Catholicism, the remaining ones have started voting more republican, but it is too little too late, the Catholic vote will remain where it has always been, democrat.
Protestant blacks are counted in the Protestant vote, although many or most of them belong to black denominations, unlike Catholics who are all of a single denomination.
We aren’t importing black Protestants by the tens of millions.
Catholics voted Clinton, Clinton, Al Gore, Obama and Obama, it is how they traditionally vote.
Poland (Catholic) was the first Warsaw Pact nation to THROW OFF communism, inspired by Pope JPII and led by Lech Walesa.
The Soviet Union infiltrated the Vatican because it knew that Catholicism is the enemy of communism.
The Scandinavian nations (Protestant) are notoriously liberal and socialist. The other liberal (Protestant) nations in Europe that are strongly tending toward socialism are Great Britain and the Netherlands.
Secular humanism is at the root of this loss of freedom, NOT Catholicism (as you seem to be implying).
As a soldier in the Cold War and under Reagan, I knew about the Soviet Union, but I was more curious about the Americas and our Catholic border nation that you had described as Marxist and which is replacing the American voters.
“”Being 96% Catholic is very pure, almost as pure as America was when it was founded, I didn’t say that the government is run by the Vatican, or that the Catholic people of Mexico have done a good job with their nation, just that they were a purely Catholic nation, meaning the denominational church membership of it’s people.
How many Catholic populations have adopted or become communist, or Marxist” “I don’t know, I never looked into it, is there a lot of that in the most Catholic region of the world?””
Depends on your definition of "Catholic populations" (i.e. practicing Catholics versus poorly catechized members who do not adhere to the Church's teachings - IOW "Catholics in Name Only").
"While Latin-American Catholics are still more socially conservative than those in the United States and Europe, there’s still an important gap between popular religiosity and doctrinal adherence. Popular Catholicism across the region is a syncretic mix of precolonial beliefs, African-influenced religious practices, rural and popular folkways (such as shamanism and curanderismo), and personal and regional devotion to individual saints. To the persistent frustration of the Catholic hierarchy from colonial times to the present, Latin-American Catholics have had historically low rates of sacramental participation, especially among the poor. Relatively few nonelite couples, for instance, chose to participate in the sacrament of marriage. This practice goes back to the colonial period. Historically, Latin Americans have had markedly lower levels of Mass attendance than those in the United States".
http://commonwealmagazine.org/church-latin-america
It's disingenuous to attempt to implicate Catholicism as a causal factor of the growth of marxism/socialism by indicting some groups of baptized members who have either rejected or have failed to receive her teaching and thus fail to follow the "holy way".
Catholic population means a population of Catholics, especially a high portion of the Catholics in a population when talking about almost purely Catholic nations.
By the way, it would sure be better if you would just respond to own posts when posting to me rather than creating things that I haven’t said or claimed.
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