IMO, RCs are well-versed in their own religion, but sadly unfamiliar with Protestantism.
I'm afraid I know it too well. And Augustine, whom you name, believed in the Immaculate Conception.
47 posted on 08/12/2004 1:13:03 PM PDT by Pyro7480
(Sub tuum praesidium confugimus, sancta Dei Genitrix.... sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper...)