• mriswith@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    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.

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        18 hours ago

        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.

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      Yes, at first it’s weird to think that people join an authoritarian organization like the Catholic Church, ostensibly believe that if they don’t follow its teachings that they will suffer an eternity of punishment, and then switch to follow a billionaire grifter.

      But if you consider that churches teach you to obey without thinking for yourself, it makes a lot more sense that people get confused and start obeying the louder person, instead.