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The Catholic Church won’t endorse political candidates, even if IRS rules change, bishops announce
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They don't need to. There's always a core of alt-right loud mouths in every parish who try to force their political opinions down everyone else's throats.
Sometimes it's the parish priest and their hard-right lackeys. Sometimes it's leaders in the Knights of Columbus council for the parish. Sometimes it's just regular church-goers. But there always seems to be a little group of them regardless.
Most parishioners just nod and smile and then disregard those guys. But my point is that even when the church officially forbids political endorsements in a higher level, others do it on a local level.
There's also quite a few people in the US who are catholic in name only, and are actually against the pope/vatican. It's so bad that last year the vatican ended up excommunicating an Italian archbishop and former diplomat to the US, because over the years he'd gone full blown conspiracy theorist maga. To the point where he was ranting about the new world order and called pope Francis a servant of Satan.
I saw a car with these two bumper stickers:
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That was a very confusing day for me.
There is a significant group of conservative Catholics who view any change as a departure from the One True Faith™. You can still find churches that do not follow the modernizations from the Second Vatican Council, which happened back in the 1950s. Pope Francis was seen as a radical by many of these people.