77 years, Mostly Catholic grade schools, last 3 years Catholic high school, 1 son graduate of Notre Dame, active in my parish, 4th degree KofC, and your message meant nothing to me...don't condemn, EXPLAIN.
Well, your poor parents apparently didn't their money's worth on your Catholic education and I have nothing to say but bad things to say about Notre Dame University and that goes all the way back to the sob, Theodore Hesburgh.
As far as your DEMAND for an explanation of the Catholic confessional state, I recommend you start here:
An Apology for the Confessional State
If you have any other questions about our religion, feel free to PM me.
The Catholic confessional state is one that is explicitly Catholic. That is, the government declares the Catholic faith the official established religion, upholds the truth of the Catholic faith and teachings of the Church, and may even limit or forbid other confessions.
By my reading, it is compatible with the American Constitution because—as many people often forget—various states had official established churches well into the 1800s while many of the Founding Fathers were still alive. The Constitution only forbade a *federal* established religion.