Um I’m married to a Catholic. I was married IN the Cathedral of the Assumption in Louisville. My kids were baptized there.
I separate, tho, the Church from the faith. Through things like Liberation Theology, which I was exposed to at my Roman Catholic high school, and things like the Pope’s manifesto on Global Warming, the Church has enabled the very forces it now decries.
And I’ll be more than happy to add that my own Episcopal Church, was much further in front of the Roman Catholic one in such things.
As the post I was responding to said, when you lie down with dogs you wake up with fleas. I’d be very interested in knowing why you disagree ...
All Churches have the difficult task of living within a system of separation of Church and State. The State is the final arbiter and the doctrine of our State is the Constitution. Here the position of individual freedom predominates. The Catholic Church, as I understand it, gives more prominence to groups e.g. ‘the poor’, ‘the rich’, ‘the elderly’, ‘the ill’, etc. Our politics has an individual right to be married. The Churches have man and woman. Seems to be anyway. In contrast to what current economics or even science, they might appear wrong. I understand their leanings.
Your Episcopal Church allows women priests, openly homosexuals pastors, and a wink and nod at abortion. Thousands of Episcopalians a day convert to Catholicism because of the facts I just stated.