[SoothingDave]

And no one is asking him to relay a prayer to God...

You can either accept the explanations the Catholics give to you for their own behavior and understanding of the meaning (sometimes implicit) of their texts. Or you can set yourself up as ultimate judge of the internal disposition of others and arbiter of what their prayers mean.

Your choice.

[papertyger]

Or you can set yourself up as ultimate judge of the internal disposition of others and arbiter of what their prayers mean.

Bravo! Such a concise summation of Anti-Catholic's "dirty little secret."

One looking for the "Blame Canada" character of Catholic-basher's rhetoric need look no further.