Relations between the U.S. and the Catholic Church have not been the same since January, when senior U.S. defense officials shared an abrasive message with a Vatican official.
Days after Pope Leo XIV delivered his State of the World speech, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby summoned Cardinal Christophe Pierre, the Vatican’s U.S. representative, to a closed-door Pentagon meeting for a bitter lecture.
“The United States,” Colby said, according to a blistering new report by The Free Press, “has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side.”
So Catholics are the major Christian group based on that.
Protestants are broken up among several dozen sects and don’t often form a single block on issues. Catholics are one group that do often form a voting block.
It’s well past time we stop breaking up Christianity into Catholic and Protestant. It’s not a useful metric anymore. A Lutheran and a Baptist are just as different as a Quaker and a Catholic. Like come on the reformation was like 4 centuries ago, let’s categorize better
OK, but if all Protestants reject the pope, then it’s a useful metric for the question about whether or not Americans would generally be upset about threatening the pope
Catholics in America are mid schism and form two voting blocks. But yes, protestants are even more divided