I would never have thought that as a Roman Catholic, I would be deemed some nature of heretic or "quasi-excommunicate" for merely being supportive of a Vatican Pope, but I've come to see that's what many USA Catholic clergy must have thought of me not only in all those years I stayed faithful to Papal doctrines as same were given through John Paul II but stayed out of Church, but even now since I returned to a Parish back in January after almost a year of watching EWTN.
 
In effect, you hear a Pope say or write one thing, and the global Catholic network EWTN reinforces the Papacy on faith matters, yet when you walk into a USA Roman Catholic Church it's most often a completely different scenario. Yes, the liturgy and Verbum Domini are just like the Pope says, yet that's where it usually ends. RCIA classes teach newcomers and converts that we must hold hands while praying to effect Communion, teach the forward Crucifix could care less if we show respect to it, teach as if the Eucharist were no more than a cookie with mouthwash, teach Reconciliation (Confession) is unnecessary at all for absolution as is any Pontifical plenary alternative, and teach it's wrong to be for social charity and justice as the Popes define. Then, if as adherent to the Papacy of faith matters, if you do go to Reconciliation and admit faith quiver due to a dichotomy of relevant Church intentions over practice, you're told you need to be less judgmental because some are closer to God than others and need time to come around, including yourself; you're usually given some single prayer as penance, and given absolution for a sin against God you didn't even know you were committing...Papal obedience. And then you find yourself allowed to attend Church on days of obligation, but darn it, nobody "can remember" you for fellowship, official inclusion on Parish member rolls, and the like...a quasi-excommunication wherein you are practicing persona non grata.
 
All Catholic Churches of course include in their liturgy intentions a prayer for whoever the current Pope is together with his own intentions, but again this only further puzzles say EWTN viewers who see practice and talk separated by a wide abyss. Then one finds dichotomy on this is "resolved" through new Catholics being trained the Pope supports a dual ordained will and passive will of God, you see, so even though a Pope wishes folks in the USA or elsewhere did things more his way he has no gripes himself with those who particpate in or train re contrary positions, there being no Divine Mercy Chaplet or Fatima style signs to the contrary, and no Papal utterance the Holy Spirit moves him to do anything about things the Holy Spirit otherwise moves him to say in his own opposition. This includes using faith funds from secular governments as if Churches now held contract to run welfare, immigration, and public housing instead of such agencies.   
 
If anyone would like to watch EWTN for a while or go to its website at www.etwn.com, they can learn just how they and the Popes feel on any religious or social issue; then, one could just visit any weekend Catholic service(s), watch the exact opposite occur, and go to Reconciliation (all you need do is say "Bless me father for I have sinned, it's been X-amount of time since my last Confession; I feel conflicted in spirit over how the Pope says we should do things one way and the parishoners here are exhorted to do the complete opposite") and watch what their Confessor tells them.
 
I offer these observations for two reasons: first, how could ANY Pope be leading ANY Crusade on behalf of the USA, when Roman Catholic clergy largely think the Pope is totally heretical and ignore him completely; secondly, if Roman Catholic clergy encourage making Papal adherents creeped out as persona non grata and supporters of heresy and judgment therein, why would some everyday Parishoner be "of any interest" whatsoever just because they stopped attending a place having constructively evicted them?
 
At least we Catholics have ways given by John Paul II which allow us to pray and receive plenary indulgence akin to Reconciliation absolution, and prayers to open our hearts to Jesus in lieu of Communion, and thus really have no need to attend an articulated Church building; I here freely admit that I am again stopping Church attendance completely as again I don't want somebody cooking me up trouble if I keep returning to where I was constructively evicted, and really, I find I lived well enough or at least equally in all those prior years of non-attendance anyway and don't need trouble where none exists. This necessarily includes my respectful resignation from the EWTN video missionary program so that I am not "of interest" for that either.
 
For these reasons, I continue to support de-funding of USA faith groups by any level(s) of USA government, in that I respectfully submit on the secular level that I can find no proof such funding is enhancing USA respect abroad, nor promoting USA border and national security enhancements, nor promoting faith as the top leaders thereof define; nor do I think anyone should become "of interest" under any HR 1955 type scheme just because some official likes the "permissive will" attitude of a Church and can't understand what type of people would oppose such public useages of money.