In our bulletin this week, Father Mike made the decision to include the following insert, something I think all Catholics should read and ponder deeply:
Rigid Traditionalists and Cafeteria Catholics "Aren't Really Catholics"
Pope Francis
Half-hearted Catholics–those who believe only some of the Church’s teachings–aren’t really Catholics at all. “They may call themselves Catholic,” said Pope Francis, “but they have one foot out the door.”
The Pope singled out groups of people whose half-hearted acceptance of faith drew into question their membership in the Church:
“Uniformists” “do not have that freedom the Holy Spirit gives,” and they confuse what Jesus preached with their“own doctrine of uniformity.” ...Such people “call themselves Catholics, but their rigid attitude distances them from the Church.” The Pope likened the “uniformists” to the early Christians who demanded that pagans become Hebrews before they could enter the Church.
“Alternativists” are those who hold alternative teachings and doctrines. They, according to Pope Francis, have “a partial belonging to the church. These, too, have one foot outside the church. They rent the church,” not recognizing that its teaching is based on the preaching of Jesus and the apostolic tradition. The “alternativists” are today’s “Cafeteria Catholics” who accept some teachings, but not the teachings which they find inconvenient or which they don’t really understand. ...
"In the Church there are many charisms, there’s great diversity in people and in the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Jesus says: in the Church you must give your heart to the Gospel, to what the Lord has taught, and never have an alternative for yourself!"
And to those who object that “it’s not easy”, to keep both feet in the Church, because “there are so many temptations”, the Rome’s bishop recalled that he who “creates unity in the Church, unity in the diversity, in the freedom, in the generosity” which is the Holy Spirit, whose specific “duty” is to actually create “harmony in the Church”. Because “unity in the Church is harmony.
Today the Church celebrates the Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul, two pillars of the Church, indispensable to the spreading of the Good News that is the Gospel. These two men were most dissimilar. One preached to 
the Jews, the other to the Gentiles. Father Mike made it a point to state that neither likely would've chosen the other to become the two men upon which the Church owes a great debt. Yet, in Christ, they come together and in Christ, they were together able, along with those they preached to and taught, to change the world.
As I get older, as I see what's taking place around the world, as I see that which distracts and diverts us from the meaningful, I am struck by how much comfort, how much consolation, how much hope that Church gives me.
I'm also struck by how important it is that my loved ones become convinced that their comfort, their consolation, their hope lies in the Church.
God, I pray that despite my flaws, despite my shortcomings, despite that in me that gets in the way, you might use me as an instrument to draw my loved ones and others to the Church and to the treasures (and Treasure) found within.
Come Holy Spirit. Use me despite my flaws and shortcomings. Allow me not to be a uniformist, nor an alternativist but instead, show me how to plant both my feet squarely within the loving confines of the Church so that I might reflect Him who we all too often ignore and dismiss.
St. Peter, St. Paul... pray for me, pray for us.
Amen.
