text: True. But neither do those Bishops who tried to intimidate Catholic voters by suggesting that voting for the Democratic candidate was a mortal sin. If I should say I feel it is a mortal sin for a Catholic to support Trump I would be engaging in an exercise of hypocrisy.  
     I grew up spiritually in another time, where one did not have to wrestle with the fiction that one could go to hell for missing Mass on Sunday. 
    I rather think that many contemporary Catholics have been poisoned by the efforts at bringing about the Restoration of the old order and do not perceive the clash between a contemporary translation of Scripture and a clanging, clumsy transliteration of the Latin, coupled with songs written in the last half decade extolling spiritual renewal and community. Neither to they see anything wrong with the narcissism implied in "I believe" instead of the original (from the Greek) "We believe". 
    The betrayal of a true sense of community is a tragedy for the church.