there are two totally distinct groups of catholics in the US: woke urban liberation theologists who like the pope and suburban pseudo-protestant millennarian fascists who hate the pope
I have only ever met the latter. American Catholics are just slightly better than the protestants in that they have to at least acknowledge that the pope and the rest of the clergy tells them they are bad people.
there are two totally distinct groups of catholics in the US: woke urban liberation theologists who like the pope and suburban pseudo-protestant millennarian fascists who hate the pope
I have only ever met the latter. American Catholics are just slightly better than the protestants in that they have to at least acknowledge that the pope and the rest of the clergy tells them they are bad people.
Or they’re sedevacantists who absolutely hate Vatican II and want the pope to be the most racist Italian you’ve ever seen
I thought liking the pope was like the sole characteristic of catholicism
You would think so but Americans are capable of self delusion and hypocrisy that puts the world to shame
It is until enough people within the church disagree and then it’s schism o’clock
Iirc there are some practices that differ but idk I’m not Christian