[Pyro7480]

The ultra-traditionalist picture of St. Catherine as a random layperson walking up to the Pope and screaming at him that he was a heretic is a myth, actually.

In pointing out an apparent exaggeration, you yourself are making an exaggeration.

[wideawake]

In pointing out an apparent exaggeration, you yourself are making an exaggeration.

Perhaps I am. But I have had a near-apoplectic "traditionalist" shout at me that JPII was a heretic and that I was a heretic and that he was resisting us both to the face just like St. Paul and St. Catherine.

So my respeonse was colored by that mental image of a lout screaming at me in his words "just like St. Catherine."