[AKA Elena]

I guess the schools I attended ... believed (in the fifties) in truth in History.

My Catholic girls high school and my Catholic grammar school scooped all the dirt on the Church and defined it as evil ... just as we learned the origin and tenets of ALL world religions.

We covered the evils of all periods of history including the good and the bad of the Crusades and the misguided evil of the Inquisition.

Maybe we just had stupendous history teachers.

[saradippity]

I had the same experience as you did. I knew all the flaws and warts of the Catholic Church as well as the Truth.Maybe the boy's weren't listening,or their teacher's were not as good or they were not as smart as the girls.(little joke)

[Palladin]

You were blessed with excellent, objective teachers. In the Diocese of Brooklyn, NY, Church History was sanitized for us, lest we take scandal from it.

To counteract this narrow viewpoint, as a teen, I got myself a copy of the Index of Forbidden Books, and made it a point to read all of them. ;)