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"There seems to be a growing gap between a Catholic community in the US that is becoming more conservative and a church leadership in Rome that is open to new ideas.
[Massimo] Faggioli believes that 'in some sense, this church is already in a situation of soft schism'. But he doesn’t think a full-blown schism is in the cards."
J. Oliver Conroy reports on the attempt of MAGA Catholics to buy the papacy now that it's up for bids again.
"Steve Bannon, perhaps the most public and inflammatory voice of rightwing Catholic discontent, has said he intends to organize a 'show of force of traditionalists' with confrontational 'wall-to-wall' media coverage. Most politicking, however, will take the form of quieter wheeling and dealing."
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/28/maga-catholics-vatican-pope-conclave
"There seems to be a growing gap between a Catholic community in the US that is becoming more conservative and a church leadership in Rome that is open to new ideas.
[Massimo] Faggioli believes that 'in some sense, this church is already in a situation of soft schism'. But he doesn’t think a full-blown schism is in the cards."
“'The real goal of [most] neo-traditionalist voices is not to break away and make their own small church,' he said. 'Their project is to win back the entire Catholic church, in the long term, to what they think is real Catholicism.'”
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