The problem is that the Catholic Church has done a really crappy job of policing the word “Catholic” so that anybody and his brother can call themselves “Catholic.” This organization and a lot of others don’t really care whether buying abortion coverage is moral or not. They don’t give a crap about any of it. They use the name to get business and a veneer of respectability. Oh yes, they may have some liberal catholic sympathies after a fashion—family inheritance or something. But they really don’t give a damn about what the Church teaches.
BTW, many of our worst dissidents are employees of the Church or ex-employees of the Church. They tend to take their “status” with them and act like they own the place even after they’ve left, and this hasn’t been dealt with either. No other organization would put up with this crap.
It’s generally not clergy who are the nut-cases either. It’s lay people who have worked for the church for a long time, who are almost always cradle catholics.
It’s generally not clergy who are the nut-cases either. It’s lay people who have worked for the church for a long time, and they’re almost always cradle catholics.