#they'll just start spouting manifest destiny at you without calling it manifest destin

[ghoul-haunted]

people who are little too out and proud about being catholic set off red flags, and this doesn’t apply to people who are catholic because they are catholic via imperialism, but people who voluntarily want to align themselves with one of the worst parts of catholicism, openly embracing the church at its worst, who ignore the church’s history of being an imperialistic, militant, genocidal power because they like the aesthetics of it and think that the post vatican 2 reformations are too protestant, ignoring the exclusionary history of the mass and the degradation of those who attended by the clergy, along with the systematic history of abuse perpetuated under the church, specifically under the pre vatican 2 church

those people are the worst

#i have not ONCE met a tradcath who wasn't ALSO some form of colonial/imperialist apologist #they'll deny it when you say it to their face but the ideology is the same #they'll just start spouting manifest destiny at you without calling it manifest destin #like jesus christ you want to jerk it to the mystery of the mass so badly get into medieval mysticism instead #instead of borderline fascism #the pipeline from one to the other is very small