[kabar]

Because the Church is the authority on who is Catholic. If she was properly baptised, then she's a Catholic, just the same, as Archbishop Dolan would say, as is her parents' daughter.

She should be excommunicated if she objects to the tenets of the church. I guess the better question is why is she calling herself a Catholic.

She was not the plagiarist. You may be thinking of Dorthy Kerns Goodwin.

[the invisib1e hand]

no, it was a bigger name than that. Are you sure it wasn’t her?