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Yeah I specify Catholic in this case. Because there are values that traditional Catholics hold true to that much of the greater Evangelical/Protestant world has long abandoned:
- Like living a life free from the tyranny of the modern demands of birth control. (It is more than just about abortion.)
- Like serious emphasis on scholarship and intellectual formation especially within the humanities. (Not just serving the demands of material pursuits and consumer needs, or caving into the pragmatic obsession with technology, business, and science devoid of historic Christian ethics. And choosing bite size theology and self-help, at the expense of church tradition.)
- Like cultivating a lifestyle dedicated to the poor and needy. (Of course there are Protestant Christians who uphold this crucial dimension of Christian discipleship too...but it’s not held to the essential place in the faith the way it is in the Cathoic value system. And often Protestants, especially liberal/left-leaning ones, “serve the poor” outside a traditional Christian paradigm and see their work within the framework of Leftist value systems influenced more by Karl Marx than Jesus Christ. Aka: the woke ones.)