[Theoden]

As someone who is usually content with just lurking, I have noticed that certain Protestant posters on here are reposting articles that we mark as Catholic Caucus threads and make them Protestant Caucus threads. It is very childish, but it is happening, and it bypasses any ability of ours to combat the misconceptions. There would be no mechanism to prevent this from happening.

On the other hand, I think your idea is still very good, and that it would be beneficial for those Protestants who are on their journey and need information.

[StJacques]

Theoden's point about the reposting of Catholic Caucus threads gives me pause about the wisdom of keeping doctrinal and interpretive issues entirely within the caucus. But the question was put as a "once a month" type of post and, on that basis, given that we will not be silencing any discussion, I can go along with it.

I think we all need to face up to the fact that many articulate and well-formed responses to Protestant critiques of Catholic theology are simply ignored on this board and the same misconceptions, though answered many times to the very posters who continue to put them up, are perpetrated continuously without attention to dialogue. I view this as a debating tactic designed to show that they are simply capable of "posting something" rather than engaging in a true back-and-forth discussion, which makes so much of the effort we expend fruitless.

markomalley; I know you're trying to find a solution to this problem, and yes I do see it, but the real underlying problem from my viewpoint is a lack of willingness to respond to what is posted rather than an ability or an inability to control the debate. If people just want to "talk at" us rather than "talk to" us, we're never going to be able to change their ways.

Other than that, I am generally an optimist about human nature. LOL!