"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."

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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

As Randall Balmer has for some time now reminded us, the alliance of the US Catholic bishops with white Southern evangelicals predates the arrival of abortion on the scene as a major issue. That alliance began with opposition to the civil rights breakthroughs Democrats ushered in for people of color in the 1960s.

Abortion is a cover issue for the racism that lies beneath it all. And the authoritarianism….

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https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133/