❄Elsa Frost❄’s Reviews > What Makes Us Catholic: Eight Gifts for Life > Status Update

--believe in Catholicism. I think the author does know that he cannot advocate nor suggest that there can be a liberal Catholic when their beliefs conflict with the Catholic Church's true beliefs, but rather he's exploring why these same people still identify as Catholic, even if their beliefs conflict with the Catholic Church's beliefs. So rather than as an official definition of Catholicism, it is an exploration of why Catholics still identify as such even if they've refused to return to Mass, or even if they still attend Mass!

I can understand that for many who have stopped attending Mass, there is still that inner spiritual Catholicism rooted deep within many of these people who have decided to leave the Church. I have a friend who is such a person--that although he has stopped attending to Church, he refuses to identify himself as other than Catholic.

So--to try and put an end to this comment so that it does not turn into a "mini"-review before finishing the book--a person may still identify as Catholic, even when disagreeing with the Church's teachings, because of their deep roots in Catholicism and its teachings.