A GREAT POLITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POPE LEO AND THE USCCB AND THAT’S THE PROBLEM, FOR SO MANY CATHOLICS, BISHOPS, CLERGY, RELIGIOUS AND LAITY, THE CHURCH IS VIEWED THROUGH A POLITICAL LENSE AND LEAVES CHRIST AND HIS SALVATION OUT OF THE DISCUSSION!

Don’t get me wrong, the article I link by pressing its title is a great political analysis. But please, tell me where you read anything about the Most Holy Trinity and the exclusive way God redeems the world through Jesus Christ. Where is there anything about Mariology, Sacraments, Morality, Spirituality, devotions and the like?

This is linked from Rorate Caeli:

Leo and the American Bishops - the USCCB Election and Fake News Pushed by American Liberals
by Serre Verweij

My final comments: Pope Leo is Christo-Centric. He speaks always about salvation in Christ (soteriology) and the new pope speaks constantly about following Christ more closely through the Church. This was particularly true of his scripted answers (nothing off-the-cuff, thanks be to God) when speaking to American youth and the entire world on recently. 

His Holiness also warned about speaking about the Church using political categories or making the Church into a political party or aligned with any political party, like some commenters here do. 

In that regard, I have tried successfully and unsuccessfully not to use the terms progressives/liberals or conservatives/traditionalists to describe Catholics.

I think it is better to use the terms heterodox/heretical or orthodox/Truth pursuing and living, although these terms can be clunky. 

If we use political terms, we could say, heterodox progressive/liberal; heterodox conservative or neo-traditionalists. I can’t say I know of any orthodox progressive/liberals, they all tend to be heterodox. 

When it comes to actively forbidding elements of orthodox Catholicism that are not heterodox, such as the TLM and ancillary liturgies, and in the modern Mass, ad orientem, kneeling for Holy Communion—these things are just plain mean and mean-spirited. These are sins and I would classify them as mortal sins against orthodoxy and charity.

Maybe we should classify people’s attitudes and actions in the Church and in the USCCB as sinful or not, venial or mortal. No other labels would be needed and certainly not political labels.