[DesertRhino]

Taking no position on the article, was that humor to ask her to reduce long treatises to a few sentences? It had to be, every Catholic posting I see is unbelievably long, and reads like a motion in an investment banking securities fraud trial.

You kill me.

[WVKayaker]

instead of posting these really long treatises :)

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It had to be, every Catholic posting I see is unbelievably long, and reads like a motion in an investment banking securities fraud trial.

Or, like some people pinged here, they post long Roman Catholic propaganda under the guise of liturgy and make repeated replies to their own thread, without ceasing. I guess some people may think it will earn them a shorter time in purgatory and some have admitted that it is done to earn a reward (RCCult indulgences are still around!).

Of course there is no purgatory, and there is nothing to do to earn anything in God's economy! Free, Free, Free... Grace, unmerited Grace!

Smells and bells are remnants of pagan worship. Repetitious prayer was specifically faulted by Jesus. God is a Spirit, and the prayers of the saints (all Christians, not a select few) are God's sweet savor!

[boatbums]

If anyone REALLY wants to talk about "long treatises", they simply must pay a visit to the Vatican libraries. There they will find miles and miles (26 miles of shelving) of canon law texts, encyclicals, papal bulls, codices and theological as well as pagan and secular manuscripts and that's not even counting the Vatican Secret Archives. Over the last several years there has been an undertaking to digitize the millions of documents, so, who knows, one day we can read the long treatises from our computers in the comfort of our home! ;o)

[Salvation]

**every Catholic posting**

You're sure about that? Do you have an "every" category now for Catholics?

I think your post is false.

[roamer_1]

Taking no position on the article, was that humor to ask her to reduce long treatises to a few sentences? It had to be, every Catholic posting I see is unbelievably long, and reads like a motion in an investment banking securities fraud trial.

HAHAHAHA! Now that's exactly right! I would have never written it so perfectly, but you are right on that - exceedingly dry and absurdly long... 'almost torturous' would seem to be the guideline.