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[quote=Anonymous]NP: I'm a Gen X who has attended Catholic Mass in English, Spanish, Italian, Tagalog, Latin (once, as an adult in Rome), and Irish; I've also attended Mass with traditional old school liturgical music, folk music, rock music, monastic chanting, and Black spiritual gospel music. PP is correct that there are parishes that regularly use the Latin Mass as a choice, so yes there are children being raise with it. There are many ways to participate in the Mass, and that has nothing to do with U.S. politics.

I believe the broader point these two are struggling to discuss is that, while the Latin mass has zero to do with U.S. politics (after all, it's said worldwide in a small number of parishes), it is also simultaneously true that those who are strong proponents of attending them regularly in the U.S. instead of common language Mass (and who perhaps also join groups like the Arlington Latin Mass Society or Opus Dei) also overlap widely on a ven diagram with those who vote Republican and may also be politically right wing Trump voters. You are far less likely to find support for Trump at a folk Mass in Massachusetts, for example.

In the U.S., Catholics, on average, year over year, are politically 50/50 R/D, which is normal and wholly appropriate, including among those who have taken religious vows. I don't personally know many nuns or priests who don't speak out against Trump's politics and who are sad that people voted for him (as am I). They are also busy working to protect those this administration aims to harm (as am I), as they should be given vows they have taken.

To the PP who suggests American Catholics will break from the Roman Catholic Church, I do not think it likely, but if anyone did, they would a minority and entirely among the right wing crowd, who I personally agree seem to have lost their way.

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