“Why isn’t the Catholic Church excommunicating members who espouse deviant practices?”
Probably for the same reason that a lot of Protestant churches around here are afraid to touch anything remotely controversial: they’re afraid of losing members.
They’d rather pay lip service to the truth and keep deviants around, whether it’s to make themselves feel better that they’re “reaching” these lost souls (when nothing could be further from the truth), to appear fashionably in-step with popular culture as you said, or, most likely, to take in their donation money. We’ve got church leaders of all stripes measuring the effectiveness of their denominations by worldly standards, and that’s a shame.
Amen. Deontological ethics with relationship to a church seemed to be created for the purpose of idiots who don’t want to read Scripture, keep to morals which may lead to personal inconvenience, or use their own minds.
If the Catholic Church is supposed to be the final authority on all subject matters and timeless, why does it keep changing its viewpoints on various matters? At first they say, “Abortion is wrong, and advocating it in society is wrong,” but now they seem to say, “Abortion is wrong, but advocating it in society is fine”. Having Pelosi and Biden as members is especially stupid when you consider that they want to destroy Christianity and replace it with a Secularist Theocracy.
Why did they need to have the Second Vatican Council? Apparently, it was originally God’s intention to have the Bible in Latin, but He changed His mind in the 1960s because churchgoers were otherwise going to turn into pot-smoking Communists, or something along those lines.