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.
>>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.<<
I hope you're wrong, too, because I hope I'm wrong and I agree with you. There are no safety nets for the faithful anymore. Long ago if you went astray and off the rails, there was a network of Catholic help to get you back in line, but not anymore. I have personally witnessed people having a crisis of faith asking a New Order priest for guidance and all he's got for them is psychobabble.
In the 1960's Fulton J. Sheen warned us to keep our children out of so-called Catholic schools where their faith is at risk from Modernist corruption, and that they are better off in public education where they have a chance of defending their faith. The problem is now much worse.
Far too many Catholics are okay with the kind of talk that Greeley spouts, okay with women priests, homosexual "marriage," First Communion in the Hand, the banalization of the priesthood, on and on. We really ought to know better. We are daring with defiance the just wrath of God almighty at this rate.