[vladimir998]

You wrote:

“The earlier pictures are presented as what would be seen from the cheap seats...So this is a gross misrepresentation.”

You’re absolutely right. Essentially what Gamecock has done is throw out most of the church interior’s design to suit his own ends. We shouldn’t be surprised, however. Anti-Catholics often resort to such gross misrepresentations: posting only partial quotes, phony photos, outright frauds, etc. It’s all in a day’s work for anti-Catholics who clearly don’t care about the truth.

[Judith Anne]

Remember when you wanted to know, seriously, who was the “Defender of the Faith”?

Well, I have pinged a few of them along with you...

[Mad Dawg]

I'm going to have to reevaluate my approach to these conversations. In the past few hundred posts to this thread we have had really quite remarkable falsehoods presented with the demeanor of wide-eyed sincerity or wounded innocence.

But further inquiry has shown in both cases that the kindest possible construction on the posts is remarkable negligence. And that's just the kindest construction.

Now I understand why one of them once told me that my report of what I saw with my own eyes decades ago could not be believed unless I could produce a corroborating witness. These people, when their sources are checked, are seen to me making it up.

God bless us all. When we misrepresent things to win arguments about Him whose Son is Truth, we're in trouble. Arguing on this forum may not be as suited to this kind of warfare as praying before the Blessed Sacrament. I'm not sure I have the grace to interact with folks whose concern for the Truth is so, well, flexible.