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The last few popes have been relatively progressive, especially compared to most of the Protestant offshoots of the Martin Luther/John Calvin types. I'd recommend checking out the papal enclyclicals. There's a bunch of them that read borderline Marxist, like Rerum Novarum.
Now that ive said something nice about them, still, the Catholic Church is an organization that does protect its own pedos from punishment, which isn't unique to the Catholic Church, still fuck the Catholic church for that.
Religion tends to trail civil society about 25 years in terms of ethics and morality.
These days they even realize condoms are less bad than AIDS. And some realize that LGTBQ people are ... actual human people.
They all still value faith over reason and have invisible friends in the sky. Not serious adults.
Policy wise Catholicism is all pretty over the place, Rerum Novarum, which is calling for Capital to be responsible stewards to labor was from the late 1800s, they had an encyclical in like the 1500s about how enslaving new world natives was bad. But yeah I agree they're consistently woefully behind on social issues.
And also still pedo protectors.
I’d say this one and the last. Red shoe guy was asshole prime.
Because helping the poor and discriminated was already in Jesus' philosophy, way before Marx. Too bad some Christians seemingly don't know about it.
Yup, which is exactly why I called out the distinction between the Catholic church and the denominations born out of the Protestant Reformation.