Relations between the U.S. and the Catholic Church have not been the same since January, when senior U.S. defense officials shared an abrasive message with a Vatican official.

Days after Pope Leo XIV delivered his State of the World speech, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby summoned Cardinal Christophe Pierre, the Vatican’s U.S. representative, to a closed-door Pentagon meeting for a bitter lecture.

“The United States,” Colby said, according to a blistering new report by The Free Press, “has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side.”

  • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    Anglicanism is sort of Protestantism. It forked off of the Catholic Church after the start of the Protestant Reformation, but wasn’t really part of the movement. The king of England at the time specifically had a problem with the Pope and essentially took over the churches in England, keeping the Catholic traditions and power structure but changing the head of the faith from the Pope to the king. The English monarch is still officially the head of the Anglican Church.

    Americans are very much not Anglican and many of the people who emigrated to the colonies were religious minorities from proper Protestant groups.

    • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      Generally yes, but what are called mainline Episcopalians are “in communion” with the Church of England, so they’re kinda sorta Anglican. If an observant Anglican were to want to attend church in the US, that’s who they would look up.

      Some red-state suburban churches broke off a few years back and are in communion with one of the churches in Africa that also broke off because they didn’t like the ladies and the gays and whatnot. Very classy of them all.

    • Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.orgEnglish
      71·
      13 hours ago

      The king of England at the time specifically had a problem with the Pope

      Didn’t he essentially found a new religion so he could get a divorce?

    • Paragone@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      13 hours ago

      Now I understand: Mom was devout Christian, & we went to Anglican churches, until Dad ditched us, then Catholic ones…

      Finally I understand the 1st Christianity I was brought-up in…

      Thank you for your explanation.

      It clarifies why Protestantism always seemed … broken, somehow: I’d only ever known Anglicanism & Catholicism, so my view wasn’t as diverse as I’d assumed.

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