“You are insulting St. Joseph, not me.”
I dunno - I’m thinking of him more like a patriarch and a ‘man’s man’ that you are. The Patriarchs were not known for avoiding sex.
“And I certainly would not insult the Queen of Heaven.”
I’ll take my chances - I think calling her ‘Queen of Heaven’ takes away from the King. Frankly, it is repulsive to hear someone put her on a level equal to the King of Kings. She wasn’t and isn’t “Mrs Holy Spirit”.
“...allows Catholics to learn and grow in wisdom and grace every time they read the inspired books...”
Sorry. I’ve known too many Catholics.
Enough to judge them all? You can't mean that.
Your pocket Catholics, which you parade around every time you are losing an argument, do they really know their Faith? As a Catholic, I am at a disadvantage, because I would have to be parading around about 50,000 bad examples every time I wanted to say protestants didn’t do x,y, or z. The fact that the Church is one makes it an easier target.
Another concept is the notion that the Church is for sinners. It also has saints in it. Some protestants believe that a church is “truly christian”, only when it is filled with saints. Such a mindset might be easily confused by the presence of so many sinners in one place. For a Catholic it is easy, they are there to be healed, to be transformed from sinners into saints by the Grace of God.
Catholics have at least 8 rules of faith, as outlined in St. Francis de Sales book “The Catholic Controversy”. The gift of Faith informs them all. Is is a gift from God, to be cherished.