u/AtraMortes

This is what I have seen from the discourse around the subject, particularly when it comes to the USA. Any attempt to make religion more than a private matter to be kept outside of the public sphere, especially the political sphere, is seen as "Christian Nationalism" or as wanting a "theocracy" and thus a violation of the separation of church and state.

I don't think this goes well with the Catholic position, which was recently outlined by Pope Leo XIV:

>"Being a Christian in politics does not mean being overtly confessional, but rather requires allowing the Gospel to guide the decisions that have to be made, even those that may not attract easy consensus." [...] it is about preserving "the connection between natural law and positive law, and between Christian roots and political action."

The liberal/secularist rather wants religion to be kept out of politics under the pretext of church/state separation while at the same time enshrining their own ideology as the default framework by which the government ought to operate. They decry any attempt of religion to influence politics as "wanting to impose your religion" while they have already imposed their own framework/ideology on everyone else.

I find this is something that should be contested more these days since a lot of the time Catholics even unconsciously are operating under a framework that is antithetical to the faith. Instead, they should be challenging its assumptions and pretence of being "neutral".