Dear DarthVader,
"I am not like John Kerry at all. I discern and regard John Kerry as an unsaved and unredeemed individual."
Well, I'm not happy about the external behavior of John Kerry, in a lot of different ways, but I'm hardly williing to judge the status of his soul. However, Mr. Kerry, like you, is a baptized Christian. Adopted into God's family through baptism, the graces of the Church are freely available to him. If he refuses those graces, he will be damned. If he accepts and cooperates with them, he will be saved. Likewise for you. I won't comment on whether you, or Mr. Kerry, accept or reject God's grace. That's above my paygrade by a considerable bit. I hope that you, and Mr. Kerry, do accept and cooperate with God's grace.
Mr. Kerry, like you, calls himself a Catholic, but does not seem to believe that to be a Catholic, one must believe what the Church infallibly teaches. Each of you appear to reject certain non-negotiable Catholic teachings, and each of you appear to accept others. You almost certainly differ in the particulars.
Between you and Mr. Kerry, the other differences are matters of degree, not kind.
sitetest
I don't believe the Catholic Church is infallible. Only the Word of God and Jesus Christ are infallible. Tell me how infallible they are when they let pedophiles molest children in the priesthood and go unpunished. My priest in one of my parishes when I lived in MD blew his brains out all over the church rectory when he was caught in another incident with young boys. Where is the inafallibility there? Tell me.