“’I’m going to resist being called a conservative Catholic,’ Glendon replied.”
Ms. Glendon is right. To adopt the moniker “conservative Catholic” is to cave into the language of the left, and of the heterodox.
There is Catholic. There is non-Catholic. One may admit of “lapsed Catholic,” or “bad Catholic,” or possibly “heterodox Catholic” (although that’s almost tautologically an oxymoron). But there is no such thing as a “conservative Catholic,” only a Catholic, and there is no such thing as a “liberal Catholic,” only a bad or lapsed Catholic, or even “no-longer Catholic.”
Are you sure of that, sitetest? Pope Francis has already declared his flavor of Catholicism:
"I have never been a right-winger."
But what one believes is manifested by what one does and effects, (Ja. 2:18; Mt. 7:20) and Rome shows her interpretation of what she believes regarding who is a Catholic by treating Ted Kennedy-type RCs as members in life and in death.
You may disown them as such, but in reality it is your foundationally Scripturally aberrant church that does not, and you must own that.
So true. I'm sure she considers herself a 'faithful' Catholic. As for reading 'Crux'; I'd never heard of it before this post, but I could understand the importance of reading it, from a faithful Catholic's standpoint. It is always important to know how the other side is thinking, and WHY, in order to refute it when encountering those Catholics in our lives who are confused, or even ambivalent, about Church teaching.