[metmom]

Thank you.

Much to some people’s chagrin, the internet IS available to research information ourselves.

Ukrainian Catholics are kind of perceived as the errant younger brother, like the black sheep of the family. Family, yes, but gone astray and needs to come back into the fold.

A very condescending attitude, which seems to permeate Roman Catholic thinking as a whole.

(Disclaimer - not ALL Catholics. There are one or two who are more charitable than the rest)

[Natural Law]

"A very condescending attitude, which seems to permeate Roman Catholic thinking as a whole."

How deliciously ironic. The person who has spent the better part of the last decade denigrating Catholics as being second class Christians or not even Christian at all is attacking the Church because centuries old cultural and nationalistic biases of some of its members have blead beyond the teachings of the Church.

The really ironic thing is that your uncivil and unchristian actions aren't the product of any cultural or national conditioning, just plain old fashioned ignorance and hatred. By the same flawed reasoning, since you allege that you were once Catholic you can blame your actions and heretical beliefs on the Church too. I'll bet you could even make a case that the Church is responsible for the Lindburg kidnapping and the Manson murders too.

Peace be with you

[Titanites]

Ukrainian Catholics are kind of perceived as the errant younger brother, like the black sheep of the family. Family, yes, but gone astray and needs to come back into the fold.

They are so far astray and such black sheep that the Pope had named Lubomyr Husar a Cardinal of the Catholic Church.