White Plastic Crosses / sanitizing catholicism for mass marketing appeal

Catholicism really is all those aspects that Protestants abhor. Little Black Cordelias, dripping blood crucifixes, wine and spices, incense and rituals. It's a Faith that luxuriates in God's creation. It’s shadow and light, procession and sanctuary. The tabernacle as house of God, where the material, the intellectual and the spiritual all are directed and focused on Christ and his sacrifice and the sacrifice of the mass. It’s a cross with a Christ.

Cafeteria Feasting

While Cafeteria catholics pretend to be Catholics while choosing the world, others of us are cafeteria Catholics because we're just handed the cornucopia and told to do what ever one does with cornucopias.

And being American Catholics culturally cast adrift to do as each one pleases, why not just have at it and stuff ourselves?