Plowing the furrows on a fall day

Once again, Fred, over on Deep Furrows, brings up some important issues, like have most Catholics lost, or never acquired, what one might call a Catholic sensibility, or have we all become mere Pastafarians?

"It's misleading and wrongly triumphalist" Fred writes, "to speak of Catholic sensibility since Catholics are not en mass markedly more sensible than anybody else." All I can say in reply is Amen! Well, of course I can and will write more:

This has a lot to do with the breakdown that Fred and I discussed yesterday between faith and reason, the separation of goodness from beauty, and the belief that truth is entirely subjective. Sadly, Catholics, at least most in the U.S., are no different than our Protestant friends and neighbors in this regard. To this end, I got in a real-life argument, as opposed to a blargument, this week with somebody who dared insist that the Catholic Church was but a denomination. Hell, even actual Protestants, ones who know what a Protestant is, wouldn't make this claim. The sad truth is that most Catholics today would accept the truthfulness of such an erroneous premise. To do so is to concede the argument up front, thus limiting yourself to one beer.