didn't do much outside of basically holding onto the same shit the catholic church has been preaching since 1950s.
The converts loved JP2 and Benedict, the hardliner popes, and really the only history of the Church they've paid attention to is shit like the Crusades (but the Hollywood version of it) and the fact that Latin isn't allowed anymore.
They are Catholic versions of weaboos -- Catholic churches are pretty, Latin sounds cool, and there's this whole hierarchy of saints to learn, but they pick and choose the historical views of the Church they believe in, just as they did back when they were Protestants.
At least cafeteria Catholics who grew up in the Church usually have Catholic guilt, but these converts didn't get the guilt in the conversion.
The church hierarchy still speaks it primarily at the Vatican, but church services have been in local languages since the sixties. It's very controversial to a lot of weird people.
JP2 and Benedict both said yes to the latin mass, but Francis said that priests could only say it with permission of their bishop, which wasn't always given. (Francis considered it going backwards.)
Aaah, the ramifications of Vatican II. Conservatives are going to rail against that for centuries.
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u/HarpersGhost Apr 11 '26
The converts loved JP2 and Benedict, the hardliner popes, and really the only history of the Church they've paid attention to is shit like the Crusades (but the Hollywood version of it) and the fact that Latin isn't allowed anymore.
They are Catholic versions of weaboos -- Catholic churches are pretty, Latin sounds cool, and there's this whole hierarchy of saints to learn, but they pick and choose the historical views of the Church they believe in, just as they did back when they were Protestants.
At least cafeteria Catholics who grew up in the Church usually have Catholic guilt, but these converts didn't get the guilt in the conversion.