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Unlike Calvinism, the Catholic doctrine requires an ability to understand complex thoughts. Without it, everything seems like a blur. Still, when you are ready with a question, wake me up.

***Unlike Calvinism, the Catholic doctrine requires an ability to understand complex thoughts.***

I think you have that backwards. In reality RCs require sock-puppets, as demonstrated by the exert from the Catechism you posted..

Unlike Calvinism, the Catholic doctrine requires an ability to understand complex thoughts.

I'm guessing, therefore, that the reason that the esteemed Forensic Debate Team of the Catholic University of America gets beaten like a red-headed step-child by the buck-toothed, back-water Fundamentalists of Jerry Falwell's Liberty University -- each year, every year -- is simply that y'all Roman Catholics are just so busy "thinking deep, complex thoughts", that you are unable to condescend to the level of us mere mortals, and actually bother to occasionally win a Debate.

Surely that is the explanation for the consistent -- nay, constant -- Failure of the very creme-de-la-creme of young Roman Catholics to best (or even equal) their Protestant opponents in direct intellectual contest.

(Well, at least you have Company in Misery... last I checked, Harvard University itself ranked 14th in the Nation. Liberty, of course, was ranked First in the Nation -- yet again, as usual; the only University in the history of American Collegiate Debate to repeatedly sweep all three National Championships, et cetera, ad infinitum).

You're just so busy thinking those deep, complex thoughts, ala Jack Handy.

(It could not possibly be, of course, that Calvinists can read their Aristotle and Augustine and Aquinas quite well, and have simply rejected the Catholic syncretistic methodology of incorporating Aristotle and Augustine as being a haberdashery unworthy of Theology, "The Queen of Sciences"; preferring instead a Bibliocentric Model which demands exacting, Precisionist evaluation. Surely not!!)

Well, annalex, take consolation in this -- the Roman Catholic University Notre Dame remains, together with the locally-worshipped University of Oklahoma Sooners (since I have moved back to OK, I am required to pay homage to the Local Religion), one of the only two top-division Universities ever to win seven National Championships in College Football.

So, maybe y'all can't Debate worth a tinker's damn, but at least you can throw a pigskin around and run into people.

Hey, at least that's something.

Best, OP