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Financial Times Article Rating

The Maga Catholics trying to take back control of the church

Apr 23, 2025 View Original Article
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    -10% Center

  • Reliability

    50% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    42% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -50% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : In February he created a task force to "eradicate anti-Christian bias".
54% : "Trump has boosted Catholicism by reaffirming some essential things, such as border protection, the defence of human life and the fact there are only two genders," said John Yep, leader of Catholics for Catholics, a political campaign group.
49% : They also denounced his 2023 decision to approve blessings for same-sex couples, his advocacy of action against climate change and his welcoming approach to migrants.
47% : The mood has spread throughout the clergy and energised conservatives who have been empowered since Trump returned to the White House.
45% : But if anything, the movement is broader than Trump and Vance and is the result of long-term trends in a church that is shifting right.
28% : Trump himself has worked hard to align Maga with the church.
23% : Francis had made clear his distaste for the policies Trump has enacted during his second term, writing in a letter to American bishops in February that deportations of migrants violated the "dignity of many men and women, and of entire families".

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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