[mdmathis6]

"ritual without the proper intention?"


Yes, it happens...that's why Chewbacca got "chewed" when he asked if Judge Bork had actually "asked Christ into his heart". It's a problem for both Catholics and Protestants. Many do the ritual for a variety of reasons, family pressure, political, social, but the significance of what they are doing never really penetrates their heart. It a kind of social Christianity that is faithless and denies the power of the resurrection.

[Thorondir]

True, but everything we know about Judge Bork points away rom him being the kind of thoughtless reed in the wind who would do something like that. I was objecting to a poster's classic heretic knee-jerk reaction against anything Catholic.