Then they are not Catholic. They may have themselves, their family, their neighbors and even their pastor convinced they are Catholic, but they are outside the community of Catholics. Catholicism is belief based association; those that accept and believe are indeed Catholics, those that dissent (protest) are not Catholics (protestants). At some point the will have to stand before the Lord and make a full accounting of their lives and decisions. That accounting will be a complete, naked accounting without any ability to bluff, trick, or BS their way around the issues.
Very well said,Dear Friend.
Thank You!
From GK Chesterton...
"The difficulty of explaining "why I am a Catholic" is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true. I could fill all my space with separate sentences each beginning with the words, "It is the only thing that . . ." As, for instance, (1) It is the only thing that really prevents a sin from being a secret. (2) It is the only thing in which the superior cannot be superior; in the sense of supercilious. (3) It is the only thing that frees a man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age. (4) It is the only thing that talks as if it were the truth; as if it were a real messenger refusing to tamper with a real message. (5) It is the only type of Christianity that really contains every type of man; even the respectable man. (6) It is the only large attempt to change the world from the inside; working through wills and not laws; and so on."