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Christianity should serve both elites and the people as one faithful. If the elites abandon their duty to God and nation, the answer is not compromise.​


Converts enter the Catholic Church because they believe it to be true, not just because of spiritual fluff and “feeling good”, but true, moral conviction. Coming from a Protestant background myself, many new Catholics expect American Catholicism to be clear and countercultural, but instead find chaos and confusion. They expect the Church to stand strong where the world has fallen apart, but sadly, it does not extend a lifeline.

Instead, we have seen something else entirely: a Catholicism that is often more interested in appeasing liberals than confronting them. There is no better example of this than Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi, two of the most visible Catholic politicians in the country and two of the most persistent opponents of Catholic moral teaching in public life.

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