Some are; some aren't. It's what they believe; it is part of their religious DNA. I expect the here are many here who agree with Bailey Smith and some who do not.
Elijah thought himself alone as he was hiding there in a cave.
The Lord told Elijah plainly that was not so.
Yet still there are many who reject Jesus in word and deed -- just as there are those who affirm in word yet do not do the work.
The two sons parable explains it.
It is things of that nature which brought me many years ago to this way of looking at it.
The RCC does not speak for myself. I arrived where I have without having followed instruction from (post Vatican II) "there".
It didn't take me centuries to get there, either.
Some people are naturals...hehhehheh.
D'jah hear the one about the difference between Jewish babies and Catholic babies?
Jewish babies are born with guilt, Catholic babies have to go to Catechism school and learn it.
And the other soul here who wrote concerning lack of a saving God has nothing to worry about either.
Are Traddie Catholics Anti-Semitic? by Fr. Dwight Longenecker
As you had said previously "The Catholic Catechism, on the other hand, teaches otherwise..."
Here of late. But not all that well -- and certainly not consistently, historically speaking.