The Benedict Option

  There are factions in the Catholic Church that want to split off and form a splinter Catholicism. They are despondent over Francis' moves on social liberties and now global warming. No surprise here, the conservative mind is like a vise, nothing new and illuminating can get in. This is the tragedy because it's all born out of fear, plain and simple.

The New Republic: The Last Time Conservatives Dismissed a Major Encyclical, It Ended Terribly for Them

Anticipating a rout in the cultural wars, traditionalist Catholics are toying with the idea of secession.

Buckley’s feud with the Catholic left came to a boil when Pope John XXIII released the encyclical Mater et Magistra (Mother and Teacher) in 1961, which reaffirmed the church’s support for government welfare programs and coupled them with calls to fight poverty in the Third World and end colonialism