Skokie
Banned
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OTL, the Catholic Church was mostly comfortable with science and technology, or at least they liked to pretend as much. The Church claims its teachings are "rational." A Belgian priest came up with Big Bang theory.
Regarding space: the Church even created the "Queen of the Universe" devotion to the Virgin Mary (complete with images of the BVM superimposed over supernovae) in order to get lay Catholics comfortable with the prospect of interstellar travel and the possibility of extraterrestrial life, which, I suppose, everyone in the early '60s thought was right around the corner.
The enemies of the Church were Enlightenment thinkers, Romantics, Protestants, materialists, feminists, and basically anyone who questioned the existence of souls, God and Christian morality. But by the '60s and Vatican II, even those people weren't being pursued so much.
It's only "left-wing" in American terms. In Europe, the right-wing (which the Church is definitely a part of) was never synonymous with capitalism.
OTL, the Catholic Church was mostly comfortable with science and technology, or at least they liked to pretend as much. The Church claims its teachings are "rational." A Belgian priest came up with Big Bang theory.
Regarding space: the Church even created the "Queen of the Universe" devotion to the Virgin Mary (complete with images of the BVM superimposed over supernovae) in order to get lay Catholics comfortable with the prospect of interstellar travel and the possibility of extraterrestrial life, which, I suppose, everyone in the early '60s thought was right around the corner.
The enemies of the Church were Enlightenment thinkers, Romantics, Protestants, materialists, feminists, and basically anyone who questioned the existence of souls, God and Christian morality. But by the '60s and Vatican II, even those people weren't being pursued so much.
When did the Catholic Church start getting left-wing economically?
It's only "left-wing" in American terms. In Europe, the right-wing (which the Church is definitely a part of) was never synonymous with capitalism.