Who are you referring to as "the author"? If you mean me, then why did you think I would find that idea tendentious? Do you think that because I posted an article from a particular publication that I have the same viewpoint as that publication? Do you assume that every FReeper who posts an article from the New York Times or Washington Post speaks for those publications? You accuse me of potentially causing scandal, but you show no concern in spreading false assumptions about me. You don't know me, yet you somehow "knew" I would find a basic truth of the Catholic faith tendentious.
First, the term 'scandal' was not used in any of my posts, I think that you are confusing me with someone else in this area. My use of 'One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic' was in a rather poor paraphrase of GreatOne in post #11 -- 'However, I've developed a better way of putting this - you are either plain old "Catholic", in that you ascribe to all of the teachings of the Catholic Church, or YOU ARE NOT CATHOLIC. The Church is not a political party, where her position on such issues such as abortion, homosexuality, women priests, contraception, etc., depends upon who the pope is at a given time. The Holy Bible and 2000 years of Sacred Tradition have essentially nailed down the Church's position on every issue imaginable, and WILL NOT BE CHANGED.' The point I was trying to make was that if I had posted something like that, I thought you would consider it tendentious. If you do not consider that tendentious, I apologize again.