So if you have a poll, let's say, which shows that for instance 80% of US Catholics don't agree w/ Humanae Vitae, that means that it's safe to extrapolate that 80% of US Catholics aren't really Catholics? I'm really not trying to bait or bash anyone's religion here; I'm trying to make sense of this whole phenomenon with the sex scandals w/in Catholicism.
"So if you have a poll, let's say, which shows that for instance 80% of US Catholics don't agree w/ Humanae Vitae, that means that it's safe to extrapolate that 80% of US Catholics aren't really Catholics? I'm really not trying to bait or bash anyone's religion here; I'm trying to make sense of this whole phenomenon with the sex scandals w/in Catholicism."
I take all polls with a mine of salt. There are just too many problems with "catholics" who respond to polls. Many who respond to polls are CINO, they go to Mass Easter and Christmas, funerals etc. The rest of the time they align their "beliefs" with the zeitgeist.
I don't think you are bashing at all. I am also trying to make sense of all this. Nevertheless, "Catholics" who reject "Humane Vitae" are Catholic only in the same sense that Democrats are Original Intent Consitutionalists.