[pizzalady]

"Now if I may address another facet of your anti-Catholic diatribe..."

I regret that you misunderstood my post. I am not anti-Catholic. I was relaying what I personally experienced more than 50 years ago(1949-1958). I am sure that not all Catholic schools are the same nor the nuns or priests, or their teachings. I was speaking only of the school I attended. A different time, a different place.

The school I attended in Upstate NY had a number of nuns who beat pupils bloody with the edge of a ruler. As I witnessed on several occasions. And we were taught that Gentiles were good, Jews were evil. We were forbidden to read the Bible without a priest to interpret it's meaning. These are facts, not just my opinion, certainly not a diatribe.

Times change. There are good and bad in all walks of life, including the Catholic Clergy.

[TheGeezer]

Your statement

"For if the Pope was the infallible head of the church, how was it that different popes proclaimed different views? How could they all be infallible?"

is certainly not something derived from your personal experiences. It evidences a serious misunderstanding of the doctrine of infallibility. It is an anti-Catholic statement, since it implicitly condemns Catholic doctrine as false and also implies that Catholicism is a false religion. It may not be hateful, but it is anti-Catholic.

Regards.