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But you are all free to continue to deride any and all Catholics whom you deem unworthy of belonging to your particular religious sect.

It's not that we don't want Hannity. Rather it's the reverse. Hannity doesn't seem to want the Church. At least not in its present form. He disagrees (apparently) with some of its basic teachings and would like it to conform to his personal schematic.

Like any organization whose membership is voluntary, nobody is compelled to belong. However membership does carry the expectation of support for the basic beliefs and aims of the group. There's nothing peculiarly Catholic about that idea. I mean, it's not like Hannity has no other choices or options. Nobody is holding a gun to his head. If he wants a Church which has no problem with artificial birth control, all he needs do is walk out the front door and take a left. He'll find about a dozen within a two block radius.

I listened to Sean's rebuttal yesterday on the drive home, to a caller who claimed he was a Catholic, and essentially said Sean was wrong in not publically denouncing any and all forms of birth controll for everyone, since Sean proclaimed himself to be a Catholic.

(As I have stated several times, I knew Sean Hannity was a Christian, but I had no idea which Christian sect he was personally affiliated with)

Since his radio/TV talk shows are essentially political/current events oriented in nature, and not religiously themed, I don't understand why any Catholic, priest or laymen, feels free to personally and publically attack him, as a public figure, for the "sin" of not using his microphone to advance a decidedly Catholic sect specific agenda.

I have visited Catholic churches as an invited non-Catholic guest at weddings, funerals,special holy days, and regular mass services.
At no time did I ever observe 100% of the Catholic congregation participate in public communion rites.
My Catholic friends have told me this was normal, and just because I was not expected to partake of the holy sacrament,for that would make it a mockery, many devout practitioners of the faith do not participate at any given time, based upon personal reasons that are none of anyones else's business.

All that said, I still don't care which Christian sect Sean Hannity claims a personal, spiritual, private affiliation with.