"White House says Biden is a 'devout Catholic' when asked about abortion policies
Cardinal Raymond Burke has said Biden was not a 'Catholic in good standing.'"
"[The Catholic Catechism] reads: 'The inalienable rights of the person must be recognized and respected by civil society and the political authority.' The Catechism also warns that 'when the state does not place its power at the service of the rights of each citizen, and in particular of the more vulnerable, the very foundations of a state based on law are undermined.'"
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-psaki-biden-devout-catholic
I guess the question becomes, "Where is the line drawn between 'a devout Catholic' and a CINO?"
Agreed on the question. The answer, part of an overall and larger question, is that we don't know, and won't know much about religious practice/belief/actual flag planting until we're back in the game which I would say is next year. Every statistic about religious practice and belief is glum. This from Gallup is unfortunately two years old and very glum:
https://news.gallup.com/poll/248837/church-membership-down-sharply-past-two-decades.aspx. If written today it would be glummer. I would posit that's where some of our energy could and should be aimed on this board, both in analysis, prognosis and strategy.
In terms of this thread, the percentage of CINOs, then, is most likely growing at the same or greater rate than the decline in Catholic mass attendance (
https://news.gallup.com/poll/232226/church-attendance-among-catholics-resumes-downward-slide.aspx - again a couple of years old in the statistics). For those folks, and here that would include a large percentage who disagree with official doctrine on a variety of issues, Joe Biden is a mass-attending, honor your priest and bishop Catholic. That group represents, I'm pretty sure, well in the majority of Catholics, maybe at the 60-40 level or more. In addtion, Biden is a more regular Catholic than half the Catholics who call themselves Catholic, so he becomes an example of the good - that is, someone who goes to Mass.
The religious part of the cultural wars, as the overall participant list dwindles and becomes glummer, is left to those at the edges, the more doctrinally inclined, because the far larger group in the middle is dropping out.
Dave Benke