https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/07/27/catholics-are-becoming-the-new-mainline/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-ghost-of-eric-holder-haunts-trump-s-justice-department&_bhlid=089632c02df9bf977cf970efdb3e78076a578d25

On my way back from Mass recently, I walked past Alex Padilla, the uber left-wing California senator, coming out of St. Joseph’s on Capitol Hill. The incident was just the latest reminder for me that the Catholic Church is increasingly functioning as the new mainline church in American politics where left, right, and center gather to receive Christ. St. Joseph’s is located about a block away from the conservative Heritage Foundation, and a friend of mine has spotted the leader of the centrist Make America Healthy Again movement, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., at the parish as well.

The development of the Catholic Church as a haven for all members of the political divide is a fulfillment of what Alexis de Tocqueville said about American Catholics, who “constitute the most republican and the most democratic class of citizens which exists in the United States.”

Since Tocqueville’s time, Catholics have percolated throughout important Washington institutions. A majority of the justices on the Supreme Court from both Democrat and Republican appointments are Catholics. They include Amy Coney Barrett, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, Clarence Thomas, and Chief Justice John Roberts. Neil Gorsuch was raised Catholic and attended Catholic school, but as of 2017, he attended an Episcopalian Church. Catholics also help run major think tanks in D.C. Kevin Roberts, the president of The Heritage Foundation, is probably the most prominent example.

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Why? Albigensian Crusade? Huguenots? Witch burnings? Turtle Island massacres? I'm sure the list goes on.

This painting:

https://www.amazon.com/Painting-Huguenot-Decorative-Aesthetic-24x36inch/dp/B0D3PTYLJR?th=1

She's trying to save his life by tying a white ribbon around his arm to pretend he's Catholic. He's refusing it, and essentially signing his own death warrant. I found out about the Huguenots in a book called 'The Hidden Thread' inspired one of the author's ancestors. Liz Trenow. This is not common knowledge, regarding how the Protestants were treated in the 17 and 18 hundreds in France.

The Catholics messed up so many societies.