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water into wine, etc, because he was Jesus.  But, the rest of us have no
right to mess with such things.  No doubt that God/Jesus can do any
darned thing in the world that he wants to do.  But, humans aren't
allowed to do so - "You shall not suffer a sorceress to live."

> Thinking back, I'm interested to note just how long it's been that I've
> actually heard a Catholic even suggest that Protestants were somehow
> less Christian than Catholics. Unless you count Sean Connery's line in
> "The Untouchables", about being among the heathen who wouldn't recognize
> a Saint Christopher medal, I haven't encountered anything like this in
> real life in, what, over thirty years.

I think the Catholics in Northern Ireland don't think very highly of the
Protestants.  Even if we don't consider that a very contemporary view,
it certainly is a historically accurate view.  The Catholics were busy
burning Protestants at the stake for some time as heretics.

Once again, I am giving the arguments that I've heard, usually from far
wackier Protestants than I've hung out with.  While they may not be very
well grounded when viewed from the *Catholic's perspectives*, they are
certainly well grounded from within the dogma of many Protestant
churches.  Some of the arguments go all the way back to Martin Luther's
original proclamations.  When the Protestants broke off with the belief
that the Church was practicing distinctly un-Christian things, they came
to the conclusion that they were the proper interpreters of the Bible
and people who failed to follow them were un-Christian.  That belief has
softened some, but hasn't gone completely away.

-Magdalena