Pope Francis to Address Congress

[TJ in Oregon]

He's not gonna spare either side of the aisle. 

This most likely. He'll skewer Democrats on abortion and Republicans on their complete lack of empathy for the downtrodden

Yeah, probably. The annoying part is I just know Fox News will promptly not report on any of the economic stuff and focus solely on the social issues acting like the Pope agrees with Republicans.

That depends on whether Fox News wants to domesticate the Pope or vilify him. It's rather touch-and-go at this point.

[TJ in Oregon]

Well take a look at who the fundamentalist Republicans voted for in the 2012 primary...Rick Santorum.

...after they'd exhausted every other conceivable alternative to Mitt Romney.

[TJ in Oregon]

Non-denominational.

Regardless though it's hard to call that a searing attack on the Pope.

Your church does not qualify as fundis, so that is not relevant. No one said liberal or mainline Christians were anti-Catholic.

Some still are but in a different sense; they tend to hate the Catholic Church because they (the anti-Catholic ones; not all mainliners) hate its teachings not because of the sort of wild conspiracy theories the Fundies seem to come up with.

[TJ in Oregon]

Well take a look at who the fundamentalist Republicans voted for in the 2012 primary...Rick Santorum.

...after they'd exhausted every other conceivable alternative to Mitt Romney.

Right, but the obvious reason why isn't because Santorum was Catholic, but because he was clearly a terrible candidate. If they were so opposed to Catholics they would've never considered him and would've decided to just settle on Bachmann or someone, sure an awful candidate, but not really much worse than Santorum all things considered.

But besides that, let's consider that the SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE is a Republican Catholic. So that alone makes it pretty absurd to argue that the Republican Party is anti-Catholic, or even that all Republicans are Protestant.

The Republican Party isn't anti-Catholic. However, there are some Evangelicals in it who are, certainly a minority.