[Oratam]

I was a college freshman in a survey of Christianity course when the professor, fairly giddy, recalled those heady days. (As a visual aid, be aware that a classmate of mine said this professor reminded her of H.R. Puffenstuff.)

He was far from giddy when he described the disappointment he and his colleagues felt when the pope issued that famous encyclical.

I didn't have a D.D. from Yale or a Ph.D. from Brown (and still don't) but I knew better than this silly department head.

(To his credit, he knew the Soviet Union and its satellite states would fall. He credited the little "babushkas" with the keeping the light of faith burning.)

[Bigg Red]

Sorry, but I don’t know who H.R. Puffenstuff is (but I did a DuckDuck search).

Yeah, there are lots of otherwise educated people who just don’t understand — or refuse to accept — that God’s Commandments are for real and not just the Ten Suggestions.