“So, you have decided their view of Catholicism is ineffective and they are lost, but you are simply “observant”?”
Do you think their “view of Catholicism is” effective? Where did I say they were lost? What is more than observant?
“What do you make of your own?”
How would that matter in regard to this story?
Their sacramental effectiveness, you noted, was clearly missing on six of the seven. By deeming their efforts ineffective, you thus pronounce two things:
1. you are one holding the ability to judge effectiveness within the Catholic paradigm.
2. and, missing by six means the person is lost.
You were not merely observing, you were judging. Don't be bashful...step up and pound the chest.
"How would that matter in regard to this story?"
I was curious what the judge thought of their own effectiveness.