[Quix]

nothing oculd be farther from the truth.

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That assertion, given my broad travels and having lived in many locations with significant numbers of RC’s in my network . . .

that assertion is simply not true.

For that to be true, I’d have had to have ran into very, very, very few RC’s as I described them. The fact is, the majority of more active RC’s were more into Mary than into God or Jesus. And the other largest chunk even than that were nominal RC’s who didn’t seem to have much authentic spirituality at all.

My sample size was not small. My assessments were not shallow.

[kosta50]

I have lived all my life around Orthodox and Catholics. I think I can safely say ( I should know; I am one of them) that both Apostolic communities, whose theology is about 99% the same, believe in the Triune God first, and then reverentially venerate Mary, St. John the Forerunner (Baptist), patron Saints, etc. in that order.

My impression is that most of them are less familiar with the Bible based on their own readings than your average Protestant. But their Biblical education is based on bible classes, and liturgical life where weekly readings cover most if not all of the NT and OT.