Cafeteria Catholicism Archives

November 17, 2025

Why Did We Stop Saying “Cafeteria Catholic”?

What ever happened to the term “Cafeteria Catholic”? If you spent any time in Catholic spaces during the late 2000s or early 2010s, you probably heard it everywhere, to describe Catholics who “pick and choose” which teachings to follow. But...

Feature / The New Americanism

February 14, 2020

by J. Patrick Yodzis

The New Americanism, Part Two: The Underlying Principle

This is the second installment of our series on the New Americanism. To read part one, click here. The heresy of Americanism was condemned in Testem benevolentiae, Pope Leo XIII’s 1899 letter to James Cardinal Gibbons, then Archbishop of Baltimore....

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