[GonzoII]

"The purpose of those kinds of definitions is merely so that a religious organization can teach anything that will tend to give power to itself and subject others to it. "

The Catholic Church preaches the Word freely and those who desire to accept it must do it freely. What else does the Catholic Church have to expect but ridicule from the world for its teachings. Worldly respect? No way.

[John Leland 1789]

"The Catholic Church preaches the Word freely and those who desire to accept it must do it freely. What else does the Catholic Church have to expect but ridicule from the world for its teachings. Worldly respect? No way.

You must be talking about American Catholicism.