assessing Catholics

Old Order
My remarks apply to Old Order priests, nuns, and laypeople.
1) There is no inner recollection; oh, it's called that, but it isn't.
2) There is no independent thinking, just blind obedience to a master.
3) They can never know, as cradle Catholics, what having no faith is like.
4) None have had a supernatural conversion, or two, or three, or more.
5) There is a thirst for power, not humility, especially among women.
6) None have a strong will, which would rebel against bad leaders.
7) They remain in place for an inability to do something else.
8) Their education is poor, and the result is brainwashing.
9) They will never admit to causing the decline.

Title: Deus noster refugium. God is our refuge.
Music: Charles Levens, French Baroque composer 1689-1764
Art: The Flight to Egypt, Tiepolo

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giovanni_Battista_Tiepolo_-_Los_hebreos_recogiendo_el_man%C3%A1_en_el_desierto_(boceto)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
Title: The Hebrews gathering Manna in the Wilderness
​Artist: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770), c. 1740
Medium: oil on canvas; accession number 2566
Dimensions: height 3.62 in; width 2.63 in
Collection: National Museum of Fine Art