The article entitled "Catholics largest group in new US Congress" has been making the rounds in St. Blogs. Shouldn’t the title be "Cafeteria Catholics largest group in new US Congress?"
I also started to wonder if the term cafeteria was affixed to other Christian groups to designate those that that pick and choose what their church teaches. Checking Google I got no hits for Cafeteria Methodist, and only a handful for Cafeteria Baptist and Cafeteria Calvinist (who I guess are predestined to be Cafeteria Calvinists). The ones for Cafeteria Presbyterian only referred to a real cafeteria in a Presbyterian hospital. I also got zero hits for Cafeteria Anglican or Episcopalian though mainly because a Cafeteria Anglican would be a Unitarian anyway.
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In the Great Cafeteria of Progressive Catholicism, most of these folks don’t even rate being an entree or even a side dish, but at best a packet of catsup strashed among the packs on the condiment rack. I am sure that God can forgive deliberately dull people, but it is a shame that both the Church and our republic has to listen to folks whose thoughts don’t stray far from a dollop of tomato paste and a touch of corn syrup.
There are cafeteria Catholics and pot luck Protestants.
Protestants are cafeteria Catholics.
What C Scott said.
You got no hits because Cafeteria Protestant is redundant….wouldn’t be protestant otherwise.
I posted that article with the comment, “if we have so many Catholics in Congress, then why haven’t they made abortion illegal yet?”
‘Cafeteria Anglican’ is redundant.
My term for those alleged Catholics in Congress, the majority of them, anyway, are un-Catholics. They profess to be Catholic as a political tool, but they don’t live or act Catholic. And Lord knows what they actually believe in, if anything.
Maybe by voting for Mitt we can send a message to politicians that we are too smart to be fooled by labels.
Besides I find the fact there are (practically) no orthodox Catholic political candidates far less embarrassing than being surprised/duped by these phonies.
You must be aware that many readers of CathNews would be pleased with the Democrats infuence in the US Congress. Like them, they are rather more pro- socail justice than pro-life.
Sean, Someone has called this same set of catholics in congress “Tactical Catholics” which seems correct to me. I just shudder to think of how they’re going to explain their repeated votes against partial birth abortion etc when they’re eyeball-to-eyeball with the Lord Jesus. I doubt they’ll be smiling then.
Senator Brownbeck is my man!!!!!!
Sorry, typo. BROWNBACK!!!!!
They should be called “CINO”s, or “Catholic in Name Only”.
Interestingly enough, google returned 10+ pages of hits for “Cafeteria Muslim” and just as many for “Cafeteria Mormon” (including several references to Mitt Romney). It’s no surprise that any religion that has a creed, even a weak one, should have those who believe they can simultanously reject that creed while remaining within the community it defines. After all, this is the specific acidity of secularism – the unrelenting assault against all objective reality. This assault will continue as inexorably as entropy itself, until all systems have reached maximum disorder. Only then will the Fr. McBriens, having undone the work of God, take their day of rest.
dimbulb has it right, but backwards. Cafeteria Catholics are Protestants.
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