However, in the last 50 years, the Democratic Party platform has drifted into open hostility toward Catholicism on nearly every point of doctrine, yet, the kissy-face relationship is possibly stronger than ever. Why?
Is it money? Does the Catholic Church depend on government largess to operate? Is it purely the open borders policy of the Democrats the ensures there will be church going Catholics to replace those who have drifted away probably never to return?
I wonder if there's a more practical, or cynical, reason. Perhaps the bishops realize the party most likely to march them off to death camps is the Democrat Party so it's (excuse the mixed metaphor) better to feed the crocodile hoping it will eat you last than to poke the bear.
The bishops get $80 million/year for resettling “refugees.” But I don’t think that’s the whole reason for the bishops’ No Borders position.
Catholic Charities gets 90% of its money FROM GOVERNMENT.
Also, I don’t think it’s primarily about replacing Anglos who have departed. Hispanics are leaving the Church, too, and are even less generous to the Church than other Catholics. Hispanics get married at an even lower rate than whites. Baptism, Confirmation, and especially marriage in the Church, are collapsing.
I think it’s more deeply ideological. The last several Popes have deliberately appointed leftists. Also, bishops in America CHOOSE THEIR SUCCESSORS! This is NOT the case elsewhere. What this means is that the cowards who caved on contraception picked their successors, who picked their successors, etc., and each generation since 1968 has become more cowardly, more homosexual, more pro-abortion, more socialist—more Democrat.
Cupich is a perfect example of this trend—hand-picked by the Pope at the urging of the most notorious homosexual in the American hierarchy, Donna Wuerl.
The Catholic Church today, most emphatically including the Pope, is in the grip of the one-world, globalist, collectivist, totalitarian, eco-extremist, carbon-taxing freaks.
And who appointed these legions of Marxist stinkers? Saint John Paul II!
If you read Chaput’s article—and previous articles—what you pick up is that he fully realizes how evil the Democrat platform is. AMONG BISHOPS, Chaput is considered a rabid pro-lifer.
BUT, like most bishops, Chaput IS a Democrat. (No matter how much he trumpets that he’s a registered Independent.) He sees voting for a Republican as such a monstrous evil that it isn’t justified, no matter how evil the Democrats are.
Thus, Chaput counsels doing nothing to prevent Hillary’s election. This is known as “remaining pure.”