This thread was posted to the Religion Forum and labeled from the start as a "Catholic Caucus", without any malicious intent towards non-catholics. If anything, I never intended to provoke controversy and limited the audience to catholics who appreciate the historical perspective of this topic.
Please accept my sincerest wishes for a Blessed Christmas.
I hope you will believe me when I say this thread also appeared on the main forum, at least for a while, before it was removed from the main forum. I do not visit the Religion Forum on Free Republic because of situations such as this.