But you know what made them even more likable?? It was the fact that even though we disagreed on matters of religion we agreed that we wouldn't interfere with our friendship and working relationship. Heck, I even helped to document a catholic worship service one of him so he could send a report back to his diocese. Does that sound like someone who hates catholics as I've been accused of?
We come here to further the cause of conservatism, at least we should be. If we can, as I've done in the past, "agree to disagree" and not get so arrogant and hateful in our language, then this would be a much nicer thread that it has been.
Reminiscing about your long friendship with Judas Iscariot isn't going to impress Peter, John, or Mary. Sorry.
With all due respect (to you), if that is a true story that fellow should be defrocked and excommunicated. In addition to privately (and not so privately) believing and teaching heresy, he was defrauding the Catholic soldiers to whom he should have been ministering the Gospel. I have naught but contempt for him. You, at least, are an honest Protestant. He was a dishonest liar; a protestant masquerading as a Catholic Priest. If that's the sort of "catholic" you get along so famously with I regret to inform that it doesn't prove much.