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The 20th and 21st-century conservative intellectual movement was built by Catholics (William F. Buckley Jr., Russell Kirk), influenced by them (G.K. Chesterton, J.R.R. Tolkien), or now led by them (Patrick Deneen, Adrian Vermeule, Sohrab Ahmari).
Pic related is the single most powerful and successful conservative social movement of the last 50 years. It was started by Catholics, funded by Catholics (like the Knights of Columbus), and its theological reasoning (personhood at conception) is Catholic. The Dobbs decision was a Catholic victory. While mainline Protestantism has collapsed on issues of marriage and gender, the Catholic Church remains the largest and most unyielding global institution defending the traditional family.
The Catholic Church runs the largest non-governmental school system in the world and the largest non-governmental healthcare network in the world. They are literally building and maintaining society, hospitals, and schools, especially in poor communities.
When every other corporation, university, and "conservative" church bends the knee to progressive ideology, the Catholic Church is the only institution with the size, history, and centralized authority to actually resist. It's the only institution that can (and does) go head-to-head with the UN, the EU, and the US government on abortion, euthanasia, and gender ideology, and win.
The "Woke Capital" they worship is a direct result of the Protestant ethic being stripped of its Christian morality, leaving only a "gospel" of profit and self-creation. Catholic Social Teaching (Rerum Novarum, Quadragesimo Anno) provides the only coherent conservative critique of both socialism and predatory capitalism.