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If I want to learn more of my faith, why should I go to a Catholic web site. Wouldn't the Bible be a much better source. You don't seem to understand that while my congregation has a preacher, he encourages us to go home and test anything he has said against the Bible. When he is in error, and admits that he sometimes probably is, we have the duty to test anything he says against the Bible. That is exactly what I do and what I tell my students to do when I am lecturing. It would be a good practice for you to adopt also.

If I want to learn more of my faith, why should I go to a Catholic web site. Wouldn't the Bible be a much better source.

But you don't go to the Bible. You and your fellow travellers often pull extra-biblical quotes "refuting" Catholic doctrine off of other polemical websites. And most of these websites are simply cut-n-pastes of other polemic websites.

My guess is none of you've never actually gone to the actual source (such as Justin Martyr, Ireneaus, etc.) and read what they taught in depth. Just mindless cut-n-pastes from other cut-n-pasters.

If I want to learn more of my faith, why should I go to a Catholic web site.

1) You'd actually be going to the Catholic web site to learn about *our* faith, not your own. The reason being that you are here criticizing *our* beliefs, so it might be in your interests to know the opposition.

2) The reason it's a good idea to go a Catholic site -in addition to the sites you probably already visit- is so that you can see the other side's position for yourself. Yes, it may naturally be biased towards Catholicism (duh) but at least you can say that it's not going to be artificially biased the other way either, as an Evangelical apologetic site might be.

If I were a political novice and Candidate 1 said Candidate 2 wants to take away Social Security, wouldn't it be smart of me to actually see what Candidate 2 has to say in his own words, rather than rely on what Candidate 1 - who sure has a lot to gain personally - has to say about it?