“Cafeteria” Catholics should not call themselves Catholic, but the media never differentiates between twice a year Mass attending Catholics and devout Catholics. The media would like for everyone to believe that the vast majority of Catholics are liberals, which is not true. Church attending Catholics by and large are very conservative and vote that way. None of my Catholic friends are liberals. I am also a member of Knight of Columbus and have never ran across a Knight that was liberal. They probably exist but I’ve never met one.
Until you find a way to ban church members who don’t pass your personal test, then you have to accept that church members count as, church members.
How many of the USCCB-reported 70+ million American Catholics make up this regular-mass-attending, conservative-voting "vast majority"?
...studies of the 2004 results identified a new hardcore vote of roughly 16 percent of Catholics (nearly 10 million people) who attend church more than once a week and identify as ideologically “conservative”.
-- from the thread America's conservative Catholics are on the warpath. Republicans should be courting them