If you deny the Teaching Magisterium of the Church, you reject Catholicism. Just as there are some anti-Semotic Jews, there are anti-Catholic "Catholics" particularly in the obsessively materialistic and very poorly catechized liberal "Cathiolic" circles of the United States known as AmChurch.
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10/15/2003 10:18:22 PM PDT by
BlackElk
(Castrillon de Hoyos, George, Estevez, Arinze.... The Tiber will flow into the Rio Grande)
If you deny the Teaching Magisterium of the Church, you reject Catholicism. Just as there are some anti-Semotic Jews, there are anti-Catholic "Catholics" particularly in the obsessively materialistic and very poorly catechized liberal "Cathiolic" circles of the United States known as AmChurch. Well, then count me in, I guess. FWIW, I would point out that the liberal circles of which you speak seem to comprise the majority of the American Church, as I'd say the overwhelming majority of American Catholics reject the Church's teachings on artificial birth control, for one, knowing full well what the Church's position is on the issue.
It'd be interesting, academically, to see just how far most Americans have drifted from the core teachings of the Church. It isn't, incidentally, the same thing as being bigoted against Catholics, as would be the KKK, for example.
Snidely