Favorite liberal Catholics?

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Who are your favorite liberal Catholic teachers? (I’m here as a non-believer with strong relationships to my Catholic family, so please don’t comment if this post offends you)
 
Bueller. Bueller.

Surely some liberal Catholics (who are in the majority - at least in the US) are in this forum, yes?

(Not trying to rock the boat, I have been coming here, to this forum, assumed this was a relatively representative space, of most Catholics)
 
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“Favorite liberal Catholic teachers?”

That’s a pretty narrow request.
 
It depends on what the term liberal means to the OP. If one goes by pre-Vatican 2 standards, then there are very few conservatives/traditionalists left.
 
There are some posters here I’ve been privileged enough to learn a lot from. Does that count? I don’t know that they actually are liberals, they just get called one every now and then. Usually when someone is taking flak from “both sides” you know they’ve got it right.
 
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Really just trying to see who I could look to (as far as people who identify as liberal Catholics). Pretty sure that’s a thing. Not here I guess?
 
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I really don’t know anyone who goes around identifying as a “liberal Catholic”. They just call themselves Catholics.
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Really? Perhaps this forum is more of a bubble than I thought. There’s lots of surveys showing the conservative/liberal breakdown of self identified Catholics (at least in the US). Seems to me Catholics are more diverse politically than most religious groups.
 
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Seems there are more liberal Catholics than conservatives, yes?
 
What do you mean by liberal Catholics?

I don’t know any teachers who call themselves that, so not sure.
 
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I’d say the opposite of those Catholics who call themselves conservatives?

Edit: In the US at least republican/democrat is pretty synonymous with conservative/liberal. So, I’m specifically referring to the 37/44 (rep/dem) stat, showing more catholic Democrats in the US than Republicans.
 
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Ah, to be honest I don’t usually pay much attention to US politics or really know much in depth about what each platform represents. I think where I am the political climate is a bit less intense, as well.

The Catholics whose views mine tend to align with most likely wouldn’t have an overwhelmingly Republican- or Democrat-leaning outlook overall; some people I admire (not public figures, though) would take a stance you might not find as common among “conservatives” on certain issues, which I suppose makes them more “liberal” - although there are enough major points of disagreement with Democrats and the like that they would not identify with those liberal parties politically.
 
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Know any self proclaimed liberals who follow Catholic teachers? Really that’s what I’m looking for here
 
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Perhaps this forum is more of a bubble than I thought.
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This forum, like every Internet Catholic forum, draws a lot of people who are traditional Catholics and/or devout Catholics and/or students of Catholic theology, all of whom spend a lot of time reading about Catholicism and being involved with Catholicism. They are much more concerned with conservative v. liberal liturgical practice, teaching etc . than your average Catholic in the pew who also doesn’t bother to go into Catholic internet forums. Online forums are not a cross section of Catholics. They skew conservative just like every news forum skews conservative.

There are posters on this forum who pretty much work some remark or complaint about “liberal Catholics” (or “progressive Catholics” or “modernist Catholics”) into every post. I never hear this stuff in daily life.

By the way, “conservative” vs. “liberal” for politics doesn’t necessarily mean the same thing as “conservative” vs. “liberal” Catholic. A Catholic can be conservative when it comes to US politics and vote for Trump, but be liberal when it comes to church practices and support Pope Francis, ecumenism, and the Ordinary Form Mass in the vernacular.
 
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The closest I can come up with is probably Dorothy Day in so much as she was a co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement. Though probably a conservative in her time, she was at least radical in that she believed in surrendering everything to the common good - though this clearly has 1st century overtones. She had an abortion and was a convert. Her story is actually quite admirable.
 
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The Catholics whose views mine tend to align with most likely wouldn’t have an overwhelmingly Republican- or Democrat-leaning outlook overall; some people I admire (not public figures, though) would take a stance you might not find as common among “conservatives” on certain issues, which I suppose makes them more “liberal” - although there are enough major points of disagreement with Democrats and the like that they would not identify with those liberal parties politically.
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I think that describes most people of good will.
 
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