As is every Catholic Parish and diocese.
I had inlaws in town, and we went to the local Catholic church on Sunday. The priest there
-Does not believe in the Incarnation (calls it a false teaching)
-Preaches at the local Unitarian church. (If my LCMS pastor did that, he would be bounced out rather quickly).
-Says that he would be happy to marry gays, but none have approached him yet.
2 out of 3 are not what the Catholic Catechism teaches (I will give him a pass on the Unitarians, as I am not sure what he was doing there) The first one means by definition he is NOT a Christian. Yet the local bishop keeps him on the pay roll as an active preacher.
And that is my problem with this. I have read what many of the Catholics here say the Catholic church believes, and go see what the local parishes believe and practice. To be short, they are not the same church. Either there is an undeclared schism or the claim to authority is not working.
Or as someone once said, “Every man has a Pope in his belly”.
Just war is a rather interesting doctrine. One that no one seems to be able to quantify (Catholic, Orthodox, Lutheran, Calvinist, etc). The ones screaming about Just War are often the ones not currently in a war. Once that changes, they seem to forget the prior concerns.
Golly!
It seems that even PRIESTs can be poorly catechized; too!!!
That’s pretty funny, I’ve seen a few crackpots like your guy in my area too - don’t discount a well worded letter to the Bishop.
As for the polls, as Bishop Sheen said (paraphrase) if something is not true it is still not true even if everyone believes it, and something that is true remains true even if no one believes it.