My neighbors on both sides and across the street are Catholic. They’re fine people for the most part, they’re not like this. My former business partner and friend of 25 years is Catholic. He’s too genteel to have ever behaved in this manner even if he were three sheets to the wind, and so I suspect it doesn’t ever even enter his mind.
I don’t care for some of the things that the Roman Catholic Church proclaims infallibly as doctrine. I think they’re the schismatics, if you want to get right down to it. However, there are genuine Christians within her, I’ve known many. These folks we’ve tangled with are something else.
I grew up with and worked with Catholics like the ones on this board and found them to be the rule rather than the exception.
The Catholics in this little town we live in now are not like them at all.
I guess it depends on the area of the country you’re in.