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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These are extremely common feelings. I don't think you should feel hypocritical.  According to [url=http://www.gallup.com/poll/154799/americans-including-catholics-say-birth-control-morally.aspx]this poll[/url], 82 percent of American Catholics don't oppose contraceptives.  Pew Research Forum data (http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/09/19/majority-of-u-s-catholics-opinions-run-counter-to-church-on-contraception-homosexuality) finds that most American Catholics' opinions on contraception and homosexuality differ from that of the church.

There would be very few churches in operation if those people didn't go to church.  You are in good company. :)[/quote]

Yes, many practicing Catholics don't have OP's sense of being hypocritical. Perhaps that's because they didn't have a hiatus and din't  notice their beliefs and practices changing so much.   Maybe OP could attend a few services in liberal Catholic churches in the area and ask parishioners there how they deal with feeling of hypocrisy or even if they feel like hypocrites at all. Maybe best not to raise the "H" word - and just ask how they cope with the differences between Catholic dogma and their own beliefs and practices.  You could ask the priests as well.  Some of them are gay (but not openly so), so are familiar with handling ambiguity.[/quote]

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