It is starting to annoy me that I'm seeing liberal journalists talk about "practicing Catholics" all the time these days. You're either Catholic or you are not. The term "non-practicing Catholic" is of course an oxymoron. If you agree with most of what the Church teaches, but you don't practice the religion, that doesn't give you the right to call yourself some sort of a half-assed Catholic. That may be true in other faiths, but Catholicism is an all or none religion.