Catholics are quick to whatever credit they can get for the founding of the United States, but they're in no hurry to take credit for the Catholic-majority governments that they already enjoy. I wonder why?
If any corner of the globe should bear the imprint of Catholic values, its Latin America. Catholicism has enjoyed a spiritual monopoly in the region for more than 500 years, and today almost half the 1.1 billion Catholics alive are Latin Americans. Moreover, Latin Americans take religion seriously; surveys show that belief in God, spirits and demons, the afterlife, and final judgment is near-universal. The sobering reality, however, is that these facts could actually support an emperor has no clothes accusation against the church. Latin America has been Catholic for five centuries, yet too often its societies are corrupt, violent, and underdeveloped. If Catholicism has had half a millennium to shape culture and this is the best it can do, one might be tempted to ask, is it really something to celebrate?
-- from the thread Why hasn't Catholicism had a more positive effect?....Compare two lists: According to the USCCB, the five most Catholic states, in population, are: Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Connecticut. According to the American Life League, the states with the most pro-life legislation (i.e., inhibiting abortion in various ways) are: Oklahoma, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Arkansas and Texas. This is a shocker. In short, there is no Catholic political impact in support of life in those states reportedly having the most Catholics. As Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia put it, after the 2008 election, [w]e need to stop overcounting our numbers, our influence, our institutions, and our resources, because they are not real.
from the thread The Mythical Catholic Vote: The Harmful Consequences of Political Assimilation
Something that I have learned from the few Catholics at FR who are more cult like Catholics, rather than normal Catholics, is that America is seen as a blight against their European headquarters, a stain that needs to be erased.
We see that America as it was founded, and it’s history, is something that must be overcome, and defeated by Rome.
We also see that the cult member type Catholics fully support immigration, even though here at FR, they are supposed to be pro-life/pro-marriage conservatives.
Obviously Catholic immigration overwhelming the United States is more important to them than anything else, to them, making America Catholic is the most important goal of all, the only thing that matters, although it means the left, and abortion, and gay power, welfare, and socialism, totally dominates America forever.
Anything to remove that curse of the pre-Catholic America, the greatest, most free nation ever created.
When you read these threads, look at the hatred for America, and how Spain is glorified, July 4th is a day for some of these guys to attack America and the peoples who created it.
Catholic Revisionist History again.....