I believe defiant is the perfect term for those pseudo Catholics who voted for Barack Obama. During the Kennedy campaign, Kennedy claimed that being Catholic would not interfere with being president. That he would not defer to the authority of the pope when in office. But, we have now gone one step further. American Catholics are rejecting guidance from the church in forming their conscience.
I know several, unfortunately too many, Catholics who voted for Barack, though they were well aware of his abortion advocacy. When reminded of our church’s teaching on this issue, the response was usually “neither the Church nor the pope can tell me who to vote for.”
I think another category of Catholics should be the ones who go to Mass and receive communion because they have always done so and it never occurred to them to go anywhere else. These regular attendees don’t think beyond the Sunday obligation. It’s just what they have always done, a habit.
For all those who are Catholic or not, thank goodness there is still one church left that adheres to timeless principles of faith and the truth. The Holy Roman Catholic church will prevail forever.