Thank you for your thoughtful post - it is very helpful in comprehending what appears - again to an outsider - a confused and confusing agitation of oil and water concepts and propositions. This is particularly helpful to understanding the discordant image of lay Catholics so visibly and effectively defending life, while some allegedly Catholic politicians are relentless in fomenting what Pope John Paul II identified as the “Culture of Death”. Pelosi and Kennedy notoriously come to mind, but like the possession of the Gadarene swine, their name is legion.
Happily, we know that in the end the wheat is gathered in and the tares are burned.
Again, thank you for your kind clarification.
Thank you for intelligent questions and a gracious response. I ask your prayers for and with the Church.