What Santorum Should Have Taught Us About American Religion

American Catholicism divides between "liberals" who conform to the Church's Teaching on social justice and on peace but not on many bioethical and on most or all sexual matters, and "conservatives", such as Rick Santorum, who conform to the Church's Teaching on bioethics and on sex but not on social justice or on peace.

Neither is any more orthodox than other. Both are de facto schismatic. And many Evangelicals are now so adrift from their own theological moorings that they cannot see the difference between the "conservative" Catholics and themselves, saying all that needs to be said about how "traditional", as they would and do often describe themselves, the "conservatives" really are or are not.