text: Jay - Your assumption is that there is only one way to be Catholic.  I am saying that Catholics come in many different varieties.  Some, like you, stick with the absolute belief in the "2000 years of Catholic Tradition."  That is fine with me for you to believe in that way.  
  
  But there are millions of Catholics who do not accept it all.  They, too, are Catholic.
  
  I do not want to "divide" the Church.  You find strength in your faith your way - that is wonderful.  Others find strength in their faith in different ways - and that is what does not appear okay with you. 
  
  It is not either/or.  It is both/and.  Either/or sees others as those who "embrace novelties", such as believing that contraceptives are a blessing in the modern world, that LGBT marriage is an important civil right, that women voting, being educated, having careers is wonderful, that traditions evolve in the face of new knowledge and changes in the world.  Either/or divides.  Both/and unites.