If you want to call me an apostate, a heretic, a Protestant...fine....I don’t care. Report me to the authorities and have me ex-communicated. Not all of us are drones marching in lockstep. Some of us do actually read the Bible and study history. The Church is NOT ALWAYS right. It has made mistakes.
I’m late to this thread so you may have answered already but why do you call yourself a Catholic if you don’t believe what the Catholic Church teaches? Why not find a community that believes what you believe?
You don’t need to care what I call you.
You need to care what the Catholic Church calls you:
>>If a baptized person deliberately denies or contradicts a dogma, he or she is guilty of sin of heresy and automatically becomes subject to the punishment of excommunication.
From the work of Dr. Ludwig Ott, Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma, published by the Mercier Press Ltd., Cork, Ireland, 1955. With Imprimatur of Cornelius, Bishop. Reprinted in U.S.A. by Tan Books and Publishers, Rockford, Illinois, 1974.<<
John Kerry and Nancy Pelosi also consider themselves Catholics in good standing.
Like I’ve said before, it’s a big club out there.