[metmom]

It wasn’t just me who was *poorly catechized* because there are scads of Catholics in the area in which I grew up who believed the same things.

And there are plenty of ex-Catholic FReepers who, unless they grew up in the same area I did, strangely believe the same what FRoman Catholics call errors.

You’d reasonably expect that if it were a result of being poorly catechized, that different areas and parishes would have different errors taught, but across the board, there are the same beliefs which all former Catholics recognize as being taught by the Roman Catholic church that FRoman Catholics say are not Catholic doctrine.

It’s the same beliefs that you guys call error. There’s too much similarity to be coincidental.

[maryz]

I went to grammar school with Catholic kids who apparently preferred their own interpretation (or errors passed down from their parents) to what we learned in school. Nevertheless, I think you're overstating it; people remember bits and fragments and extrapolate (forgetting the other "bits and fragments").

Then, of course, some things can't really be explained adequately at a grammar-school level -- you get kind of an outline of the basics. And that was true even when I was in grammar school, with the old Baltimore Catechisms.

[RnMomof7]

It’s the same beliefs that you guys call error. There’s too much similarity to be coincidental.

You are so right...I know what I was taught in my many years as a student in the Catholic schools, and the years I worked retreats and taught CCD.

They have simply dumbed down the doctrine for the younger generation..

[Quix]

It wasn’t just me who was *poorly catechized* because there are scads of Catholics in the area in which I grew up who believed the same things.

And there are plenty of ex-Catholic FReepers who, unless they grew up in the same area I did, strangely believe the same what FRoman Catholics call errors.

You’d reasonably expect that if it were a result of being poorly catechized, that different areas and parishes would have different errors taught, but across the board, there are the same beliefs which all former Catholics recognize as being taught by the Roman Catholic church that FRoman Catholics say are not Catholic doctrine.

It’s the same beliefs that you guys call error. There’s too much similarity to be coincidental.

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INDEED TO THE MAX.

HOWEVER, as we’ve seen relentlessly on FR, RC’s and logic have no great affinity for one another . . . after all, who needs logic when one has

THE VATICAN ALICE IN WONDERLAND SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY AND REALITY MANGLING

as the model?