I understand where you are coming from. I do! But on Free Republic Catholics are crap. I appreciate your thoughts. I was Baptized Catholic, then drug through the EUB, United Methodist, Presbyterian, and United Church of Christ, then I quit when they went to a Lutheran Church. I went to the Catholic Church.
It is what it is. Everyone on here will claim they have no affiliation with any of these. Then they wonder why Catholics vote Democrat! We never get to come in from the cold. It's a whole lot easier to be a rat, frankly!