Fascinating comparative analysis from LF Mantilla: "[C]entralized, hierarchical faith communities are more likely to resist aligning themselves with political parties than their decentralized, egalitarian counterparts." (1/n) washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
"Catholicism has not always avoided partisanship. The Catholic Church spent much of the late 19th and early 20th centuries fighting partisan battles against a diverse array of nationalist, liberal and socialist opponents." (2/n)
"These conflicts were often devastating for the church, leaving it marginalized or entangled with brutal dictators, as happened in Spain with Gen. Francisco Franco or in Argentina during the so-called 'Dirty War.'" (3/n)
So much of what we see -- the Vatican pushback against the communion doc, the limitation of the old form of the Mass -- seems like an effort of this sort on the part of Rome to keep right-wing ideologues from wrecking US Catholicism more than they already have. (4/4)
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