text: I see so many comments posted on the NCR comment sites that reflect a total unfamiliarity and/or an outright hostility towards what the responders think is Catholic teaching / doctrine.  Therefore, I think that it is high-time that NCR asked responders to identify themselves as: 
  1) practicing Catholics; 2)former Catholics; 3) persons of another religion; 4) agnostics / atheists.
  At least that way we would how much "explaining" we have to do when replying to what appears to be 'invincible ignorance'.