[american colleen]

1. Dick Blow sounds rather like most of my Catholic relatives.

2. My mother always used to tell me not to believe what I read in the newspapers regarding JFK's peccadillos. She said he was a saint.

3. I grew up in a house with a picture of Paul IV on one wall and JFK's picture on the other.

I think one of the biggest mistakes back "in those days" is that Catholics were not really taught to think.

[ninenot]

Catholics were not really taught to think.

There was a time when priests and Bishops were not lying--and when they actually understood the Catholic Faith.

That time ended right around the time that JFK was elected.

Only took the laity 30 years to figure it out.

[NewLand]

I think one of the biggest mistakes back "in those days" is that Catholics were not really taught to think.

Still going on these days...unfortunately, I see it right here on FR. It seems that many/most people who desert Christ are those who escape from the Catholic dogma.

Fortunately, many land elsewhere in Christian lives.

[maryz]

My mother always used to tell me not to believe what I read in the newspapers regarding JFK's peccadillos.

LOL -- at least you had an early grounding in not swallowing whole what the newspapers had to say!

I think one of the biggest mistakes back "in those days" is that Catholics were not really taught to think.

Who was? Who is now?