But the non-paleo-conservative Catholics gravitate towards the Jesuit-sponsored magazine America and the lay-sponsored magazine Commonweal.
However, the paleo-conservative Catholics who tend to read First Things and the National Review are flanked on the right by their fellow paleo-conservative practicing Catholics who tend to read the newspaper known as the National Catholic Register.
Similarly, the non-paleo-conservative Catholics who tend to read America and Commonweal are flanked on their left by their fellow non-paleo-conservative practicing Catholics who tend to read the newspaper known as the National Catholic Reporter.
Certain practicing Catholics today, of various kinds, also write and/or talk about church-related issues in the secular media, as do some former Catholics as well.
In addition, there are many other conservative practicing Catholics who tend not to read any of these magazines or newspapers. For all practical purposes, they tend to be social Catholics primarily in the sense that they tend not to be heavily involved as participants in the various debates among practicing Catholics today. Perhaps we could liken them to President Richard M. Nixon's supposed silent majority.
Finally, today there are also many former Catholics who are no longer practicing Catholics. But they have in the past introjected the conservative Catholic cultural conditioning to one degree or another. Usually they tend to be culturally Catholics, even when they are not practicing Catholics, regardless of the position they may hold about God. For this reason, they tend not to join a Protestant church, because culturally they are Catholics, not Protestants.
Now, all kinds of non-paleo-conservative Roman Catholics in the United States today tend to be a wee bit less conservative than all kinds of paleo-conservative Roman Catholics.
But all properly indoctrinated Roman Catholics are conservative because they are indoctrinated to pay homage to the Roman Catholic Tradition of thought (Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York says that Tradition should be capitalized to show its importance).
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