More on Sen. Rubio and religious identity

Following up on Marc's recent post:  Fr. Lorenzo Albacete comments here on the questions that have surfaced about Sen. Rubio's religion, and the possibility / merits of Christian eclecticism:

[T]he loss in awareness of what a Catholic identity means is indeed threatening the Hispanic Catholic community in the United States. Senator Rubio’s case may be a harbinger of where Hispanic Catholics in America are going. 

At the same time, this trend to reduce the meaning of a Catholic identity to folklore, to cultural traditions and to a content-free spirituality also threatens American Catholics in general. I am reminded of the observation of Curtis White in Harper’s Magazine (December 2007) already quoted in an earlier column here. We are dealing with the American kind of nihilism. For Nietzsche, European nihilism was the failure of any form of belief. “American nihilism is something different. Our nihilism is our capacity to believe in everything and anything all at once. It is all good!”