[Dr. Eckleburg]

. It wouldn’t surprise me at all that someone talking to a potential convert downplayed the Catholic worship of Mary.

I have a distant relative who married an RC whose priest spent many hours trying to get this relative to convert.

For nearly every question this man asked, the priest said something to the effect that "most of us don't really believe such-and-such. We're free to think for ourselves."

Lol. Yean, right. Think for yourselves right up until you join the papacy. And them BOOM! It's our way or the highway.

As an aside, my relative ended up leaving Rome and now the happy couple are both Protestant.

And they think for themselves.

[Judith Anne]

Are you here? I am leaving.

[Judith Anne]

I have noticed you personally seem to have an anecdote about some relative for every point you make. And funniest thing, the relative always ends up (sect unspecified) protestant.

I find all those anecdotes difficult to believe. On the other hand, I have a number of them myself, but they are of no probitive value, so I’ll decline to use them.

Good night.