I am referring, of course, to the "up-dated," post-Vatican Council II Catholicism, to which I and many other European Catholics subscribe, and with which Mel, huge numbers of "charismatics" in American, and many, many "Hispanics" (like, perhaps, your boyfriend) are uncomfortable because it's pluralist, non-exclusionary (Vatican II rejected "supersessionism" of the Old Covenant by the New, for instance, and THAT'S what's really gotten Mel's goat, in this film)--it's not liberal & anti-fundo enough, but it's getting there.