The Catholic Church is like the New York Yankees x 100, if the Catholic Church was a baseball team they would have won every championship every year. The tradition and success of the Catholic Church can not be matched by any of the “expansion” clubs.
Naturally, this leads to envy and hatred by the wanna-be’s, pretenders to the throne all. It’s harder to be a Catholic, there’s more work and study involved, there’s guidelines and traditions to follow, which lead to more consistency.
Catholics have a Catechism to follow, the Yankees don’t have players with hair down their back scruffy facial hair. Some would prefer to play for another team and be “individuals”, some would like to be individuals and interpret their Bible themselves, leading to a billion churches of one member.
The Yankees pass the torch from a Joe DiMaggio to a Mickey Mantle the way the Catholic Church passes the torch from one Pope to another.
At the heart of the Yankee and Catholic hater is jealousy, whether the Yankee hater or anti-Catholic realize it or not. In their hearts they know who the best team is, but they still refuse to embrace the tradition and the consistency and excellence of the “team”. Some folks will never be Yankee material, some folks will never do the work to join the team that Jesus Captains, the Catholic Church.
what a hoot!!!