It isn't just "cafeteria Catholics" who believe in evolution and Biblical criticism. In fact, plenty of Catholic FReepers do as well.
True.
But your original stipulation didn't make it seem that this was your specific point:
They're intellectual, they're historically victims of ethnic prejudice, they don't interpret the Bible literally, and they believe in evolution.
I maintain my original contention: the Catholics loved by the media were the "cafeteria Catholics." Orthodox Catholics have never been in vogue in the MSM.