Protestants.
Priests should be free to marry. Women should be able to be priests. Gays should marry in the church. Abortion and contracepting is OK. Nah, I don’t go to Mass every Sunday. Confession? Well, gosh, why not be a Methodist or Presbyterian?
“The Christian who believes he has a right to his private opinion, that he already knows what the Church will only come to grasp later, must ask himself in sober self-criticism before God and his conscience, whether he has the necessary depth and breadth of theological expertise to allow his private theory and practice to depart from the present doctrine of the ecclesiastical authorities. The case is in principle admissible. But conceit and presumption will have to answer for their willfulness before the judgement seat of God.” K. Rahner, “Magesterium” quoted in Francis A. Sullivan, Magisterium, 1983, p. 171.
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