[unspun]

You seem to want to think I’m fighting against Catholics about their convictions or legitimacy, or something.

Once again, I am addressing those kinds of instances I said I was addressing.

If someone believes that “the church” really does mean all of Jesus’ believers as He sees them in this world, that is how they should use the term and not use it in a contradictory fashion.

[Mad Dawg]

I'm sorry. I get that way when "ignorance" "arrogance" and Matt 23 are tossed about. Even if they're not aimed at me, I get anxious and jumpy. And it seemed to me that you used those terms in a way aimed, if not right at me, then for me to hear their buzz as they went by my ears.

If it matters, the article was written by a Catholic Priest for the publication of a Catholic pro-life organization. I knew that he was Catholic by his use of the Vulgate version of "Rachel weeping for her children". When we filthy Papists say things like "the Church" we DO use it equivocally, sometimes meaning the Roman Catholic Church, sometimes meaning the entire Catholic Church, and sometimes meaning all the Baptized. Since this is an article in what amounts to an in-house publication I think the writer can be forgiven less than perfect theological precision