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Americanized Christianity (and what is in Canada as well) was HEAVILY formed by the puritans and other offshoots from England, a hated cult of masochists that believed individual suffering was divine punishment wrought by one's own moral failings and that a community should only be present to punish people that step out of line and not actually work together to survive. It is a religious belief set alien to catholic doctrine that usually leads to radicalized priests wanting material changes but instead is one that is perfectly suited to be nested alongside capitalism as a propaganda piece.
That's an overly rosy view of Catholicism (we have plenty of situations where priests have sided with the rich and been generally shitty, the Spanish Civil War as just one example) but yeah, most of the time the greater theological unity holds back the worst impulses because a priest can't rules lawyer his way into thinking god owes him a Learjet
Oh yeah it aint absolving Catholicism of siding with fascists or propping up governments that keep them in power, but it's interesting how Christianity in America is so much worse and riddled with lots of brainworms.