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I think you misunderstood what I said. I did not make any distinction between real and fake Catholics. My distinction was between real clergymen and game pieces with clerical names. I use the word Catholic in its most common sense, which is to refer to Roman Catholics. If people who are not Roman Catholic wish to call themselves Catholic for whatever reason, it is an internal matter that does not concern me. It does not change the fact that the word 'Catholic' is universally used to refer to Roman Catholics. And it is even commonly used to distinguish Roman Catholics from Anglicans, as when news articles tell about protestants and Catholics fighting in Northern Ireland. I have always understood this fighting to be between Anglicans and Roman Catholics, not between, say, Anglican Catholics and Methodists.