And the fallout when a non-Catholic says the same thing shows the hypocrisy of that statement.
When born again believers state that someone who claims to be born again and evidences no change in their life is not saved in the first place, Catholics as a whole, demand that we own them.
They are unwilling to accept from others what they excuse in themselves.
Fine. I can accept and agree with the thinking that someone who claims to be Catholic and doesn't live as the Catholic church is a CINO.
However, when non-Catholics say that someone who professes Christ and continues to live a sinful lifestyle isn't really saved, is a *Christian in name only*, Catholics ought not to use that as evidence that Protestantism is flawed because not every one who claims to be Christian acts like it.
It happens every where in every church. No church is exempt from people being in it who are not saved and are just using religion as fire insurance.
Sounds like the old Baptist refrain: "they wuz never saved to begin with."
But you are not the magisterium, and Rome treats them as members in life and death, even public examples as Teddy K.
They are yours and you must own them, as you preach a church, and cannot formally seperate as Evangelicals have, without being in schism. But the church began in dissent from those, who like Rome, presumed of themselves above that which is written.