text: Max, you have just receive my first "Flag" ever. The fundamental of civility here is to discuss ideas, not attack the author. You have directly attacked Walter without engaging his heartfelt, honest, and intimate revelation of his personal beliefs. 
  
  Walter Rogers, under the name Jesuitical, has been a welcome commentator on this forum for a very long time. His honesty and challenging thought is an important contribution to this forum. 
  
  Neither you nor I have the authority to declare any baptized Catholic as no longer a Catholic. Please refrain from doing do. It is fundamentally uncivil. More than that, numerous self-professed non-Catholics are regulars on this forum, and they have always been and remain most welcome. 
  
  BTW, it is not true, as you state, that "To be a Catholic means to literally hold to the universal belief." Not to put too fine a point on it, but on your definition, infants baptized into the Church, are not Catholics; for they do not yet hold any beliefs.