Why Do Elites Hate Catholics? by Sean Fitzpatrick

By Sean Fitzpatrick, Catholic Exchange, March 26, 2026

Sean Fitzpatrick is a graduate of Thomas Aquinas College and the Headmaster of Gregory the Great Academy. He lives in Scranton, PA, with his wife and family of four.

The secret that everyone knows in the pre-apocalyptic era is that the vast majority of the world’s people, economic systems, political priorities, and cultural trends are controlled by an upper-crust minority wielding unprecedented power and prestige. It is the result of the devouring monopolies of mega-corporations and the collusion of the super-rich to get super powerful. These are the elites, and as alarming as this terrifying, tuxedo cabal is, what is most alarming is their hatred for the Catholic Church.

Their hatred is also extremely telling. People often hate what contradicts them, what stands to topple them. And that is precisely what Catholicism is to a world that turns on money and manipulation, on bribes and blackmail, and on shifting structures of power towards self-service. The Church is everything that is not that (although the upper hierarchy of the Catholic Church has its own elite with similar corruptions, but that is another matter). ….

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