Vance is Catholic and Thiel is kind of leaning that direction in weird ways, though.

And Catholics are still a very significant voting block for Republicans (of course quite a few are likely single issue but they specifically might take the pope’s views a bit more seriously as well than more liberal Catholics)

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uxhacker 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Catholics in Trumps cabinet are not just JD Vance, but Marco Rubio, Sean Duffy, John Ratcliffe, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. I think this is one of the most Catholic-heavy administrations in US history. It includes not just the VP, Secretary of State, intelligence chief, but also major domestic roles.

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		Surely, but you've named people who most definitely are in the party of people stoking this on.

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ThunderSizzle 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Many Catholics were Democrats, although their recent insanity in the last 10 years made many realize the Democrats have nothing resembling them.

Many Catholics currently feel politically lost, as weird as that is. You have so many "Catholics" running around DC, but few of them can or will regurgitate any of the teachings of the Church, Biden being the most recent prominent example.

Many are hopeful that JD Vance might finally fill that gap, but atheists and Evangelicals will probably keep their alliance growing rather than permit traditional Catholicism to have a revival politically.

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wqaatwt 8 hours ago | parent [-]

So Biden being nominally Catholic wasn’t good enough, JD Vance ‘practicing’ a semi-perverse form of Catholicism is going to be the savior, though?

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ThunderSizzle 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Please elaborate what semi-perverde form of Catholicism JD Vance follows.

Biden promoted direct theology against church teaching. The most obvious was his public and private stance on abortion, and beyond that, the actual work he did to bring about more evil through that dark ritual.

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