The majority of self-described 'Catholics' --- according to some polling results --- also use birth control, get spayed, neutered and fixed, divorce and remarry, deny the True Presence of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament, and insist that their own conscience (by which they mean, "my preference") overrules the whole teaching of Truth which comes to us through the Apostles. Heck, their preference, their opinion, their "own moral compass," trumps the Father, the Son, and the Holy SPirit.
Which shows that unfaithful Catholics are, well, unfaithful Catholics. Their point of view is not that of the Church, but of the "sensus infidelium."
They have just as much authority as.... any other group of anti-Catholics.
Don't expect me to defend them.
I believe it was Chesterton who said something like this: Sitting in a pew makes man a Catholic to the same extent sitting in a car makes him a car.
DON’T read Chesterton if you would hate being Catholic - his works convert countless many.
Thanks! You’re helping ansell see, much better than I
can, you’re witty too. There are “unfaithful” Catholics, we’re all sinners.
Catholics, it isn’t up to you as a fellow Catholic to defend them, what they support politically and what you support is different presumably, their vote is their own and yours is yours.