I am just speaking of my personal experience and observations.
“Actually, these members of Congress are excommunicated until they confess their sins.” I have heard for decades the complaints of faithful Catholics about the leaders of the pro-abortion movement, from Tip O’Neal to Nancy Pelosi, being given communion at their churches and kept on the membership rolls.
I endorse the Catholics’ position on abortion. I just think it would be more effective if it were enforced.
Certainly liberal Protestants have feminist abortionist pastors. But at least they are consistent. It is their official belief that abortion is a noble and wonderful thing.
If the Catholic church opposes abortion, it should not allows vocally pro-abortion leaders to take communion. I know they can’t peek under every doctor’s door to see who secretly aborts. But these “Catholics” like the open “Catholics for Free Choice,” should not be allowed communion. When the laity sees that this behavior is not disciplined, it creates a lax mindset in them. The church errs in this.
If there is a vocal pro-abortion “Catholic” who has been denied communion or stricken from church membership rolls, name her/him. I’d be glad to hear of it.
As for little know-nothings like myself wandering in and taking communion, perhaps your parish is better run. Here in San Francisco anyone wanders in and does as they like. I have observed that in every RC church I visited, and I visited many when I first became a Christian.
This criticism is meant in a constructive way, as my answer to the question posed: Why do so fewer Catholics adhere to the moral tenets of their church as opposed to conservative Protestants?
Participating in the sin of abortion results in automatic excommunication.
Frances Kissling, who runs "Catholics [sic] for a Free Choice [sic]," ran a chain of abortion clinics and has thereby been excommunicated countless times.
Incidentally, her organization is basically an office with a fax machine and an expense account paid for by the Ford Foundation, the Packard Foundation (of Hewlett-Packard), and similar organizations. The organization exists to defame and oppose the Catholic Church, in order to further Kissling's program of killing innocent kids. A more accurate name for it would be "A Few Anti-Catholics for a Deadly Choice".
“This criticism is meant in a constructive way, as my answer to the question posed: Why do so fewer Catholics adhere to the moral tenets of their church as opposed to conservative Protestants?”
LOL!