Because, of course, we Catholics don't have any personal connection with Jesus at all... Sheesh, this person is living on a different planet from the Catholic Church of which I have been a member since my conversion and baptism.
Well confession is good for the soul.
Perhaps you have heard of the quaint Roman Catholic "tradition" that is carried out in the Philippines where folks volunteer to be crucified? That is the Catholicism that the writer grew up in, not your sophisticated American flavor.
Only a FReeper Catholic would call foul in a hit piece on American Evangelicalism....
Well, in some cases it's true -- church is just where you put in your time. Happens in non-Catholic churches too however so you have a point.
Well.... when i was a Catholic I didn't. None of the kids in Catholic school did. I had to go "fundie" to be taught how to live a Christian life.
I understand that my experience is not universal, but it is common. Now I'm contemplating recrossing the Tiber (thanks to James Akin et al, and also in different way thanks to the likes of Osteen) but I'm deathly afraid I might leave something precious behind. My yet unanswered question is, why couldn't Catholicism spark a "personal" faith in myself or legions like me? Why'd we have to leave the Church to find God? Why am I now forced to choose between Apostolic scripture, and Apostolic sacrament -- why can't it be "both/and"?