If you want to start an unending argument, say something even slightly disparaging of the Pope to a Roman Catholic faithful. (And that, I confess, includes some of my loved ones.) I am very careful when I have to say anything about "Christ's Representative on Earth" whom I actually hold in very high esteem, though my "Ave Maria" no longer swells with the passion of younger days.
Yes, I was a Roman Catholic worshipper, among other things which I really have neither cause to regret, nor great joy to recall. I then found it quite comfortable to revel in what I believed to be the genuineness of the faith, though I could not help wondering why it had to be stamped with the identity of a particular nationality.
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