Culture is dictated by Theology, my FRiend. Notice in Paul's letter to the Corinthians, (I Cor.) the scolding they got for the fellow sleeping with his mother/step-mother(?) is based on the biblical understanding of appropriate morality for believers. Ooops, doctrine.
Then, notice this just in on another thread at the FR...
"An increasing number of Catholic colleges and universities have seen the addition of student-run homosexual advocacy and support groups and resource centers.
“The Jesuits, who have been historically regarded as in the vanguard of Catholic intellectual activity and social activism, might be the determining factor in LGBT acceptance,” writes Meyer, who says that Fordham “leads the way.”
"Meyer writes that Jesuit universities are not beholden to the local bishop, so therefore have more freedom.
“The Jesuits traditionally do not report to the local bishop but rather to their own officers in Rome,” writes Meyer.
“There is no one in the chain of command in the Catholic Church who can have anything to say about what happens at Boston College,” John McGargh, assistant professor of theology at Boston College, told the Edge."
Cultural? Really? Many of the distinctions between small congregations which the poster called "splintered fragments" are much smaller than this. This looks to be a disintegration.
—— This looks to be a disintegration. -——
Church teaching is public and unified.
The existence of non-practicing Catholics, or nominally Catholic institutions doesn’t change this fact.