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Entry: Responding to My Respondents Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/responding_to_my_respondents#23564 Post contents: If I may paraphrase the "more Catholic than the Pope" expression: I get the impression that part of the reason for the rapid liberalization of the Catholic Church in America has been the historical desire among many American Catholics to prove that they are more American than Honest Abe. That is, in their desire to allay nativist suspicion that Catholics were aliens and a 5th column for Rome, early Catholic bishops pushed their flocks into embracing the cult of Americanism. The cult having split into Left and Right wings, one now finds liberal Catholics among the most ardent voices of the Left, while one also finds them among the most ardently pro-state capitalist & pro-war voices on the Right. Left Catholics are always afraid of being denunciation from their fellow-Democrats for being closet-reactionary papist oppressors of women & homosexuals... while Right Catholics react to the leftist image that the Church has in the Heartland, living in constant fear of being denounced as namby-pamby Ted Kennedy types with socialist or pacifist leanings. Sent at: 2008 10 12