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In reply to the discussion: This is hard... [View all]hunter
(38,240 posts)Most Catholics are. Look around at Mass, so many people with only one or two kids, and it's not because they are practicing "natural" family planning or abstaining from sex.
That's just one issue.
Catholics are also notorious for withholding funds from the collection plate slush funds and giving their "church" money directly to charitable organizations that help the community, services for the homeless, for example, .
Yes, there are places in the USA where the Church is very similar to, say, The Mormons or various Fundamentalist sects, and in those places actually seem to be competing with those other churches to be the most bad ass right wing homophobic misogynist anti-abortion authoritarians in town, but the vast majority of Catholic parishes are not like that. In most of the USA the Catholic Church is liberal.
If they kicked all your "BAD or lapsed" Catholics out there would be nobody there.