[Quester]

"If you stand today's average Protestant against today's average Catholic, ... I don't believe that it's the Protestant who will look spiritually impoverished."

I'm not talking about "average" behavior of average people.

I'm talking about what the Church has to offer in terms of intellectual, theological, and mystical tradition, versus what protestantism has to offer.

If what you have doesn't edify (i.e. build up) the spirituality of the members of your church, ... then of what value is it ?

[dsc]

"If what you have doesn't edify (i.e. build up) the spirituality of the members of your church, ... then of what value is it ?"

You may have heard of the sweeping "changes" made in the Catholic Church in the mid-20th century.

The purpose of those "changes" -- actually an attack by Satan -- was to deny to Catholics what the Church has to offer. The declining attendance at Mass is witness to the degree to which that effort succeeded.

However, the Church is a supernatural entity, not just a collection of bricks stacked up and inhabited by men, and it survived the attack. Of course.

Two generations of Catholics have been denied the fullness of what the Church offers by the minions of Satan's modernist heresy, but, in the timeless words of the Governator, "We'll be back."