One commonality I find among the Catholics I now personally and it seems true of the ones I know here is they are indifferent to the eternity of others..
Mother Teresa met the physical needs of the dying but was totally indifferent to their eternity and she is called a 'saint"
MOther Teresa was not indifferent to anyone's eternity. There is far more to the Word of God than is found in the written Scripture and far more means to spread the Word than the spewing of out of contect Scripture. Just because some French shyster reduced God to a manipulable document, devoid of Beatitude does not mean the whole world agrees or acts accordingly.
Hello? It's called not being NOSY. What I find among the Reformers is that they think it is their bound duty to force others to follow their legalistic Pharisaic formula, yes formula! for salvation. Preach the word, according to the Great Commission, and unless someone ASks your opinion, stay out of it.
The Reformers' habit of correcting everyone who disagrees, as though they were the schoolmarms of the RF, and of "punishing" those who persist in disagreeing by expressing concern that they will go to hell, is just so Church Lady.
I find no good will in any of it, most particularly beating up, theologically speaking, on a little old DEAD nun who never did them any harm, but who went to the poorest of the poor in response to a vision and gave it her all. Disgusting!
One commonality I find among the Calvinists I know personally and it seems true of the ones that I know here is that they exalt in their own self-appointed salvation and wallow in the belief that all others are lesser beings and are all headed straight for hellfire everlasting.
We Catholics on the other hand, believe Paul when he says in: 1 Thessalonians 5: 8 But since we are of the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love and the helmet that is hope for salvation.
Galatians 5: 5 For through the Spirit, by faith, we await the hope of righteousness. 6 For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love. 4
We hope for ourselves and for all men that all men are saved, as Paul told Timothy.