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**-Seldom do good deeds in secret.**

Hmmm.

What does the Bible say?

“When you pray, go to your room and pray alone.” (Paraphrasing)

“Don’t let your right hand know what your left hand is doing.” (Again paraphrasing)

And last of all — I didn’t think that non-Catholics believed in ‘works’, per se.

And last of all — I didn’t think that non-Catholics believed in ‘works’, per se.

Then you are once again mistaken. Of course we believe in good works. They are the result of our faith.

From the Westminster Confession:

I. Good works are only such as God hath commanded in his holy Word, and not such as, without the warrant thereof, are devised by men out of blind zeal, or upon any pretense of good intention.
II. These good works, done in obedience to God's commandments, are the fruits and evidences of a true and lively faith: and by them believers manifest their thankfulness, strengthen their assurance, edify their brethren, adorn the profession of the gospel, stop the mouths of the adversaries, and glorify God, whose workmanship they are, created in Christ Jesus thereunto, that, having their fruit unto holiness, they may have the end, eternal life.
III. Their ability to do good works is not at all of themselves, but wholly from the Spirit of Christ. And that they may be enabled thereunto, besides the graces they have already received, there is required an actual influence of the same Holy Spirit to work in them to will and to do of his good pleasure; yet are they not hereupon to grow negligent, as if they were not bound to perform any duty unless upon a special motion of the Spirit; but they ought to be diligent in stirring up the grace of God that is in them.

And the point above is they do their good works and brag about it. They should do their good works in private, like scripture instructs.