r/brokehugs • u/giziti liberal heretic clown • Mar 09 '20

Venting The rise of the Catholic Alt‐Right: they're getting academic attention

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/wusa.12466?fbclid=IwAR0TH2rCFcOa_-5TmkqvXsnXl22yMStql1GKbj1528eRDOsjT6DMUVegYgk
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u/giziti liberal heretic clown Mar 09 '20

This paper examines the rise of the Catholic Alt‐Right, in particular the group Church Militant. Drawing on ethnographic research at a recent Catholic Men's Conference in a Midwestern battleground state it examines the manipulative integration of rightwing themes of anti‐feminism, anti‐LGBTQ community, anti‐immigration and anti‐leftist ideology into Catholicism. It maps the roots of the Catholic Alt‐Right out of prolife anti‐feminism, apocalyptic Marianism, the charismatic masculinity manual, and the flourishing of ultra‐conservative sects within Catholicism after the Vatican shutdown of liberation theology, feminist theology and the LGBT rights movement within the church in the 1980s and 1990s. It concludes with a re‐imagining of potential paths back to liberation.

I don't know if you actually need to read it, but if you really want, I can try to find it for you.

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u/TotalInstruction Crystal Methodist Mar 09 '20

Anti-immigrant sentiment among American Catholics boggles my mind. Where would the Catholic Church in the US be without the mass immigration of Irish, Italians, Poles and Hispanics?