Telling
A telling anecdote from last weekend:
One of the attendees - a serious Catholic with a sophisticated knowledge of and devotion to the Church's social teaching - told me of having a passionate young evangelical over to dinner a couple weeks earlier.
This evangelical was leading an intentional Christian community in the city and was intensely interested in Catholic teaching and spiritual practices. He was reading Thomas Aquinas, very knowledgeable about the Church's social teaching, etc.
As the evangelical man told his new-found Catholic friend: "You are the first Catholic I've ever met who actually believes what the Church teaches."
Ouch.
posted by Sherry W @ 7:37 PM
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Disturbing and all too plausible.
He might well have wondered, "wonder if you believe because you actually know what the Church teaches?"
Sadly think that the average Catholic's knowledge of the Church's teachings is not significantly greater than the average Protestant's knowledge of the Catholic Church.
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