[Alex Murphy]

“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.

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

[NKP_Vet]

Well as for myself I follow the teachings of the most conservative Christian church in the world. And that is Catholic Church. No abortion of any kind, no women ordination, no openly homosexual priests. Doctrine that is based on the Word of God, not a show of hands. For those “catholics” that can’t abide by their teachings of their faith, why do you persist in calling yourself Catholic? The Episcopal Church awaits you.