Next? Where have you been the last century?
One minute we're told the Catholic Church is the most intellectually respectable, rational, scientific religion out there. The next we're told they're the ultimate politically incorrect religion and target number one of the big, bad liberals--the same liberals whose anti-rural American rhetoric "conservative" Catholics are all too eager to repeat at any opportunity.
In 1925 H.L. Mencken, that Great Hero of Proud White Palaeoconservatives everywhere referred to Fundamentalist Protestants (the white ones at least; the Black ones for some reason don't count) as "gaping primates who believe degraded nonsense." Where was the Catholic Church when an entire ethno-cultural group was being slandered by a right wing bigot?
Anti-rural?
Seriously?
1925? That’s easy. Dealing with the KKK.