[Zionist Conspirator]

You pointed out the substantial differences between the two persons, and asked what connects them. To me, common baptism into the Catholic Church would be a fundamental connection between any two persons. In my own view, that connection is more significant than any of the differences you pointed out.

If the Juan Diegos and Raymond Browns fit so easily together, then what was wrong with me? I didn't pick my ancestors or what culture I was born into.

[Campion]

what was wrong with me?

Original sin? A desire to stick the church into a box of your own making, instead of a real Catholic faith? Maybe nothing, except a little trouble understanding that everything isn't always about you. More real faith than the Catholics around you? Who knows?

I didn't pick my ancestors or what culture I was born into.

No, and who among us did? You make your own culture, then if the one you were born into is insufficient for your needs. Take the good and leave the bad. Most of us do that, to one degree or another.

[sitetest]

Dear Zionist Conspirator,

"If the Juan Diegos and Raymond Browns fit so easily together,..."

I don't think that's what I said.

What I said is that for all their differences, their common baptism unites them more fundamentally than their differences divide them.

That doesn't mean that their common baptism makes them fit together easily at all. That would be to confuse the fundamental spiritual reality with all the more apparent and obvious levels of reality of culture, or psychology, etc.

"...then what was wrong with me? I didn't pick my ancestors or what culture I was born into."

How should I know? Take your pick.


sitetest