[redleghunter]

AH, so you live in Texas! You must be familiar then with the “Lucky Mary Lottery” candles. They are found in all HEBs alongside the other saints candles (one is for selling your house, there is also some kind of small statue you bury in your front yard to make your house sell faster..) It’s a busy aisle on Sat. mornings, just in time for the BIG LOTTO drawing. :)

I grew up Roman Catholic and although the Irish Catholics are not into candles and statues, my good friends and neighbors were Italian Catholics and they were. Frankly, in Texas Evangelicals and Roman Catholics (mostly old German and TexMex) get along fondly. It is very Texan. The White, Black, Hispanic and Asian "Prots" know the Roman Catholics were here first. The old line Roman Catholics know that even though we are "outsiders" we came to Texas for the same reason....To Worship Almighty God, become good Texas citizens and espouse conservative morals. So we all get along now y'all. But you would know this.

[RBStealth]

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There might be a 3x4” version that has 3000 pages, but other than that I think your pulling facts out of nowhere

I own 2 versions of the contemporary Catechism.

The only other comprehensive version was the Council of Trent Catechism....which runs 500-600pages in a standard format.

You can also run searches through Amazon on these and get page counts. 3000pgs. is collosal and something you pulled out of the thin air.