Well, all I can say is that I am glad that I am not a catholic.
I used to be a Republican party member and, due to the constant betrayal from Republican leadership on fundamental principles, due to the Republican party's striving to be Democrat Lite, I have left the party.
If I were a catholic and if I had bought in to all of the catholic church teachings and dogma for my entire life, I would find myself having to leave the church.
When your church's leader pretty much comes out and says that faith is optional, maybe even completely unnecessary, then what's the point of anything else the church has ever espoused?
This is, for all intents and purposes, just like our current president acting as if the Constitution is optional, enforcing some laws while ignoring others, applying justice to some people while letting other people skate. Except that it involves the spiritual belief system of an entire body of believers. If this happened in my church, if my pastor came out and said, in public or in private, that salvation was whatever I wanted it to be according to the dictates of my own conscience, I would get up and leave. Immediately. I would find somewhere else to worship. I don't know what you do if you are a catholic. Protestants have lots of denominations that came into existence because one group had a minor (and sometimes not minor) disagreement over doctrine. Catholics have been able to pretty much hold their entire church together for hundreds of years, maintaining doctrinal discipline, because of the infallible pope notion. Now that they have a pope who pretty much says anything goes I don't know what happens with them. But that's their problem, not mine.
It is, though, yet another institution which is crumbling/imploding from progressive thought.
We truly live in a very, very bad time and unfortunately we are only at the beginning of it. We are on a downward spiral and there is no means of reversing the trend available to us for a very long time.