**What the Catholic church really teaches doesn’t always line up with what FRoman Catholics say its official doctrine is.**
metmom,
What is the basis for this experience. Have you experienced this personally? Where? When? How? Why? Exactly what did you experience?
My experience, and the experience as stated by other former Catholics on this forum.
I know what the Catholics I grew up with and lived with and worked with believed. I've related it several times over the last several months and all I keep hearing is the knee jerk response of "That's not what the Catholic church *really* teaches", by which the person means is not technically correct Vatican approved doctrine. But it is, in reality, what the Catholic church does indeed teach else there wouldn't be so many Catholics with the exact same (alleged) errors about church doctrine.
If the errors were a matter of faulty individual interpretation, then they would be different errors, not all the same kind.