[Little Bill]

Suzi;

I am Protestant and I went to a Catholic Prep School, I hated it by the way, got a good education though.

This plague of pederasts went back before my time and I think that much of it was because the members of the Church were not critical of their leadership.

I remember the thing that shocked me most in my school was the servility of the kid to the religious, I had problems as you might expect.

I came from a place where everyone was not Catholic to a place where everyone was it was difficult.

[SuziQ]

Were you in school in the Northeast? We found, when we moved up here, that the attitude toward the clergy and religious was different from where we grew up in MS. I wasn't raised to believe that everything that came out of the priest or nun's mouth was infallible, because it wasn't. My parents questioned the priests when they thought something wasn't right, and for the most part, the priests didn't mind. We had a pastor or two who got pretentious, but that attitude didn't last long. ;o)

I was amazed, when we came up here, at what some folks believed 'The Church' taught. They'd learned from Sister Mary somebody, in grade school, something that was NOT part of Church teaching, but they were just SURE it was, because she said so. They never checked into it for themselves. I just never understood that attitude. Maybe it was growing up where Catholics were only 3% of the population. We had to know what we were about so we could explain it to folks who were not that receptive. ;o)