Pope Francis says traditionalist Catholics are 'gagging' the reforms of Vatican II

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11. It's not just passive (moderates getting fed up and leaving), it's active...

...(billionaire radtrad funders). They have created an entire hermetically-sealed religious and ideological ecosystem parallel to what you see in the Protestant fundamentalist world. This includes "think" tanks like the Ethics and Public Policy Center, which is an Opus Dei front. Reactionary Catholics have essentially plagiarized the "think" tank and institutional culture that Paul Krugman calls "wingnut welfare". It doesn't yet have the resources of the secular wingnut welfare system (funded by "defense" contractors et al.). But Catholic wingnut welfare is already quite effective at providing a jobs program for the otherwise unemployable failsons and daughters of the radtrads that fund this system. At radtrad broadcasters like EWTN, coverage of the Catholic wingnut welfare system takes a disproportionate share of their programming each day.

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