This lady simply decided to give herself a tax cut by ceasing to identify herself as a Catholic, in the same way someone might decide to save money by forgoing a night on the town. This is a widespread problem in our day, when large institutions in society seem to deliver only secular messages. Seeds of the sacred are scattered throughout the secular cultural landscape, waiting to be discovered. They are not, however, making all the proper distinctions. The material world cannot offer us salvation, to be sure, but it does not then follow that it is inherently corrupt.
Christians make a grave error when they hold that commercial culture has no redeeming value.
This is why the Acton Institute continues to look for seeds of the sacred in the secular space of commercial culture. For example, through work, we learn service. Through entrepreneurship, we learn creativity. And through the expansion of international markets, we learn how to cooperate in commerce, in knowledge, and in the building of a peaceful and just world. No, he used natural elements from earth transformed through human labor into bread and wine, which are then transformed again into our spiritual food and drink.