Oh fiddle-faddle, sink. Absolute codswallop!
You wish!!
In my experience, it's exactly the reverse. Long suffering Catholics in the pews for the last 30-40 years have heroically sat through homily after insipid homily about how the miltary is evil, big business is wicked and how we need to hug each other more and have let it all drift in one ear and out the other. They have gone home with their children, knelt down, and said their prayers and devotions and been sustained in their faith by the knowledge that the polyester clad hippie who lived in their parish rectory had absolutely nothing in common with the Pope and those united with him.
All of us who've survived the last half century of apostasy have done so by completely ignoring the activist priests and bishops who've been around us and focusing instead on the often beleaguered and abandoned Holy Father.
You are a provocateur. Catholics are not OK with women priests and you know it.
I think they are. They're ok with the pill, they're even ok with abortion, in the sense that they don't think they're going to hell for having one. They think it just one more sin in that big ole pile, that the Lord is just ready to toss aside, while preparing to show them his love, his understanding, his ability to put himself in their place.
You have Holy Ordered reps of the Church refusing to teach what the Church teaches, and admitting such without a qualm. And they represent the majority, not the minority. How do you overcome such metasticization?
I do think that there are a decent share of Catholics as you've described them in your post. Ones who have put up with the insupportable because they were and are Faithful. But they're not red-fanged like the progressives. They're meek. They aren't rabble rousers.
My Mother and I were talking about obedience to Church doctrine just yesterday. She's 73 years old, grew up in Italy in the late 40s and 50s. And, she said that people have always disobeyed, the difference was that they disobeyed knowing they were being disobedient, and would have never admitted to anyone that they were using birth control, etc. Thus the disease was capable of being contained.
It's not that way at all now. The apostasy is propogated with much greater vigour than the Faith ever is. The Faith is second to what they believe is right for their life.
Since liberalization provided the means by which the apostasy metasticized, the Church should have been really selective about who She allowed to remain within her walls.
They shouldn't have allowed me or people like me back so easily. I abandoned her without a care, while others remained faithful. And yet the minute I was taken back, I could show up early on Christmas Eve, and get the best seat in the house, even though I should have been forced to stand, and the Faithful be given the privilege of appreciating what they had remained faithful to.
I think 'progress' will continue unabated. Only catastrophy will mobilize a realignment.
I hope I'm wrong, and that our future Pope and many of the up and coming young Priests will lead the Church back to her moorings.