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However, no student could take an 'O' Level in Religion as every examination board required study of the Bible, which was not permitted. Instead, we were fed a diet of Roman dogma, the sacraments, sacerdotalism, history of the Jesuits, and the Church Fathers. Catechisms instructed that doctrine was not always to be sought in the Bible but in the infallible teaching of the Church. We learned much about Christological heresies, but at no time could we have explained why Christ had died - we supposed that it was that we might have the Mass. Every week the whole school gathered for Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, where we worshipped what we were assured was the Lord Jesus Christ, in appearance as a consecrated wafer fixed into a golden sunburst-style monstrance, borne at arms length by a Jesuit priest amidst clouds of incense. This, we sang, was the 'newer rite' that had superseded the former 'types and shadows'.

I was raised a Roman Catholic, and he is 100% on the mark.

I found Christ in later life, or a better way of saying is that Christ found me.

Liar wrote:

“We learned much about Christological heresies, but at no time could we have explained why Christ had died - we supposed that it was that we might have the Mass.”

So, never once in all those years, in those schools, in those classrooms, from all of those teachers (priests and nuns), and in all those sermons at Mass, this guy is claiming he was never once told “Jesus died for our sins”?

He’s a liar.

I interpret your comment as meaning “your were born again.” Having been raised Protestant and baptized in my mid teens, I considered myself Christian, but it was, in reflection, an ordinary way, with not much affect on my life except as moral code and toward honesty. It was only later, in my late 40s that I came actually understand my Christian faith and what following our Saviour actually means. Thus I consider myself “born again” in the faith, and practice. one can know but not understand.