The Catholic Church is becoming overly progressive

CHRONIC. Among the many challenges that the new Pope Leo XIV will have to face, there is one that seems to be particularly evocative: to establish clearly that Christian universalism is by no means synonymous with a unified globalism.

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The Catholic Church’s College of Cardinals made history Thursday by electing the first American pope, Robert Prevost, who took the name Pope Leo XIV. The liberal media celebrated Leo as a pope cut from a similar cloth to Pope Francis, while downplaying the reported Republican streak to his voting history. But during an appearance on CNN News Central, liberal Catholic writer Michael Sean Winters (of National Catholic Reporter) lashed out at conse…

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The Catholic Church is becoming overly progressive

Shortly after white smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel chimney, the world met a new leader: Pope Leo XIV. An American cardinal with a left-leaning vision, Leo, or Robert Francis Prevost, signals not just a new papacy, but a deepening of the Church’s political pivot. For many Catholics, it raises concerns of the Church becoming overly liberal. Leo’s unanticipated selection surprised the world, but more importantly, it sent a clear message. Th…

The new head of the church was one of Pope Francis' closest associates, whom Francis had just brought to Rome, appointed as a cardinal, and then made the influential head of the organization that appoints bishops.

At a time when the Catholic Church has chosen a new pope, there is growing evidence: for many people, the Catholic Church today looks like a project of seductive counterculture. Faced with capitalist and progressive Western society, it embodies a conservative alternative on [...]