Steven Rosswurm’s book, The FBI and The Catholic Church, details the Hoover era FBI's efforts to obtain Catholic moles and informants. Remember that until after WWII and it was showed how they joined and fought en masse, Catholics were never part of the WASP mainstream in America.
The FBI's effort was somewhat of a success, in that Communism is antithetical to Catholicism. The result was a theology that made "the enemy of America became the enemy of the Church" when in fact America was the enemy of the Church. Later, the feds would bribe bishops with government grants.
After WWII, the ethnic enclaves of Poles, Italians, Irish, etc. were broken up by the importation of southern Blacks into northern cities and the "urban renewal" projects that put low income public housing projects into those ethnic neighborhoods. Catholics moved to the suburbs, and became atomized consumerist Americans.
After internal changes to the Church, the average Catholic was attending St. McSurburbia with a watered down liturgy. Many left the faith, and/or didn't raise their kids Catholic.
In short, there are far fewer Catholics today. While there is a progressive wing of Catholics today, they are fewer and diminishing, and the trads are in the process of retaking what was lost in the 1960s/1970s as the older generation dies out and their kids never joined the faith.
Okay, that's one take. But think on this for a minute...how did you get "Catholic" politicians like Nancy Pelosi or Joe Biden?
Because the WASPs were able to undermine the Church in exactly the way I noted in the original post.
That means catholicism failed one way or another. By subversion or whatever culprit you wish to name. I do not see Catholic leadership disavowing frauds such as Pelosi or Biden. Surely they are not opposed to Biden or Sotomayor or Pelosi or other baby killing sodomite loving grifting crooks taking on the label of "Catholic."
Catholicism is 2,000 years old, and has survived worse than a few decades of idiocy from its leadership, lay and ecclesiastical.
Biden, et. all are fake Catholics. But they are not disavowed by most bishops (there are a few), let alone the (anti)pope Francis, because as I note in the original post, the WASPs were able to subvert it such that "the enemy of America became the enemy of the Church" and to destroy their ethnic enclaves (this latter was mostly the Jews).
The billions in federal grants to Catholic charities also helps keep the bishops in line, as does the idea that hordes of swarthy south of the border Catholics will make up for the demographic collapse of membership in America.
Is the pope a fake too? How far do you take this no true Scotsman fallacy in the Vatican?
It's not a "no true scotsman" situation. An "anti-pope" is one who has been not validly elected. It has happened several times over 2,000 years.
First, Benedict's resignation was (perhaps) not valid. Second, the rules for papal elections set by John Paul II were violated for Francis by the bargaining beforehand. And third, Francis is an manifest heretic, and heretics should lose the papacy, though there is a process for that, which hasn't been started yet. I think everyone is just waiting for him to die, because he is very old and very ill.