I'm sure I can speak for many Catholics in saying that there is nothing discernably "Catholic" in TBAA. It is not only touchy-feely "feel-goodism," as someone on this thread said, it is also syncretistic and univeralist in the bargain. It serves to give a 'non-judgmental and spiritual" glow to a large percentage of Americans who couldn't be bothered/don't want the moral baggage of living a Christian life. If it's anything, it goes a long way to fulfilling 2Timothy 3:5-7.
It may "seem very Catholic" to you, but it only resembles your perception of "Catholicism" from the vantage point of one outside of it. No thinking Catholic would consider the show to be anything more than sentimentalist trash, at least as it pertains to expositions of authentic Christianity.
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"I'm sure I can speak for many Catholics in saying that there is nothing discernably "Catholic" in TBAA. It is not only touchy-feely "feel-goodism," as someone on this thread said, it is also syncretistic and univeralist in the bargain."
Only the fact that it promotes praying to angels and the universalistic tendencies. It does seem as if Catholics have been claiming for years that anyone who follows their religion in good conscience will be saved.
The show seems to me to be distinctly Catholic as most Catholics I know behave and believe. If that is wrong, then most Catholics I know don't act Catholic.
"No thinking Catholic would consider the show to be anything more than sentimentalist trash, at least as it pertains to expositions of authentic Christianity."
I guess I don't know too many of those.
Colin.