“Living in the Bible Belt has its moments. There’s a gritty reality to the religion in the South, and fairly often you feel like you really are living in a Flannery O’Connor story.
“One of the crunchy parts of living here are the ‘separated brethren’ who seriously ask, ‘Are Catholics Christian?’ It’s a difficult question to answer, not because there is no answer, but because the answer is on the one hand so obvious, yet if the question is being asked you realize that the answer is not obvious at all. In fact, you realize that the person asking the question is only doing so because he already truly believes that Catholics are not Christian.”
In a recent commentary, Father Dwight Longenecker (parish priest at Our Lady of the Rosary Parish, Greenville, SC) reflected on what it means to be a Catholic Christian.
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Standing on My Head: Are Catholics Christian? (24 Mar 12)
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