The American Church, especially, is riven between "conservatives", such as those drawn to Paul Ryan (Ryan's own Randianism puts him in a wholly different category, essentially outside the Faith altogether), who accept the Church's Teaching on bioethical and sexual matters while
pretending not to know that the economic and foreign policies that they
excoriate are in fact the Church's Teaching on justice and peace, and
"liberals", such as Joe Biden, who accept the Church's Teaching on justice and peace while
excoriating that on most bioethical and most or all sexual matters.
Neither is any more orthodox than the other, and both echo the Americanist heresy. Since there are no new heresies, that was a manifestation of the same error that has presented itself at Byzantium in the eleventh century, in England in the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, in France and the Netherlands in the seventeenth century, in German-speaking Europe and the Hapsburg lands in the eighteenth century, and among the Croats of Croatia and of Bosnia-Herzegovina from the 1990s onwards.
The influence of each of these can still be felt, while there were and are several further examples. Both sides of neo-Americanism belong in that category.
Neither is any more orthodox than the other, and both echo the Americanist heresy. Since there are no new heresies, that was a manifestation of the same error that has presented itself at Byzantium in the eleventh century, in England in the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, in France and the Netherlands in the seventeenth century, in German-speaking Europe and the Hapsburg lands in the eighteenth century, and among the Croats of Croatia and of Bosnia-Herzegovina from the 1990s onwards.
The influence of each of these can still be felt, while there were and are several further examples. Both sides of neo-Americanism belong in that category.
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