[Salvation]

You will always be a Catholic if you were baptized or confirmed in the Catholic Church. Those indelible marks of these two sacraments will never disappear.

Find a priest and sit down and get your questions answered. Father Paul Scalia, son of Justice Scalia serves in Virgina, I believe. Find him and talk with him.

[IIntense]

You have to know, Salvation, that many baptized Catholics do not follow the rules of the Church. You must be aware that many don't go to Sunday Mass every week, do not go to confession/reconciliation, engage in sex before marriage, live together before marriage.

How many get divorced and remarry?

Regardless of these actions which go against the teachings of the Church, you believe they are still Catholics.

I don't understand that thinking. While some would like to call themselves Catholic, there are others who no longer identify with the Catholic Church.

I think they should have that freedom to decide.

[ScottinVA]

Wrong. Salvation is based upon a relationship with Jesus Christ. More power to you to follow your Catholic doctrine. I don’t.