—— This looks to be a disintegration. -——
Church teaching is public and unified.
The existence of non-practicing Catholics, or nominally Catholic institutions doesn’t change this fact.
The existence of non-practicing Catholics, or nominally Catholic institutions doesn’t change this fact.
The body of true believers, called the Bride of Christ in Scripture, is unified and Scripture is authoritative. The existence of non-practicing or nominally Protestant believers does not change that fact either.
However, Rome overall counts and treats such nominal or worse RCs as members in life and in death, even notorious public sinners who would be forbidden to have church funerals by canon law if they would be a scandal to the faithful. Evidently they are not, or the faithful are the majority liberal.