It’s Sunday (barely), I’m Catholic, and I’ll be toddling off to the usual Mass at the new Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels here in Los Angeles.
But it’s with increasing disinterest that I attend any Catholic services at all since Ratzinger took the ring.
Church already looking more Republican under Ratzinger
At a confession last year before the election, I told a priest that it was hard enough to be a Catholic, but much harder to remain a Catholic if you also happened to be a Democrat. Of course, Cardinal Mahony here in LA is one of the most pro-union/pro-Democrat Cardinals left in America, but the Church is allowing the “life” issues to trump issues like peace and the poor, and it will only get more difficult for American progressives to remain even nominally Catholic at all during the Ratzinger pontificate.
Republicans get a lot out of the Republican-Christian alliance–Christians, not so much, just split churches and the frustration of pursuing one big phoney carrot they will never reach.