text: I am a pre-V2 Catholic. Not sure what your context is, but American Catholics have always talked about Church teaching with some honesty; it's just more open now since V2. 
  
  
  I am a practicing cradle Catholic who is something of a "church elder" and who does not agree with everything the Church teaches and certainly not everything the Church does. Yet my pastor and my bishop have taken no umbrage to me calling myself a Catholic. Who are you to do so?