It’s a New Landscape for Catholic Evangelism — and Activism, by Peter Wolfgang

Catholic political activism is at a crossroads. For about 40 years the pro-life and pro-family movements had a home within the Republican Party, while a small minority continued to fight for the soul of the Democratic Party.

Two Supreme Court rulings, one inventing a right to same-sex civil marriage and one repealing the invention of a right to abortion, have caused both political parties to shift to the left on the social issues on which we have historically fought. New cultural issues have emerged, some of them the results of battles previously won or lost.

At the center of all of this is the historic re-election of Donald Trump, the first president in more than a century to win a second non-consecutive term, and Vice President-elect JD Vance, a Catholic convert knowledgeable and articulate in the new populism that has reordered the Republican Party’s priorities. …

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