text: This is only partly Senator Feinstein's fault, though. She is at fault for not educating herself about the complexity of Catholic identity. But then, she is a busy person, and the media tend to give the impression of Catholic monolithicity, established upon some truly deplorable principles. She is really dumb to throw around the term "dogma," not understanding what that word means, and how generally inappropriate it is to most real-life contexts; but we must admit lots of people are no better than she on that point.
  
  Senator Feinstein would be doing her job very well, were she to ask with more nuance which particular points of Catholic moral doctrine the professed-Catholic candidate felt obliged to uphold.