Reply #12: Same here

[mcar]

I was raised Catholic and attended Catholic schools and a Jesuit college. We were never taught to take the Bible literally; it was never an issue.

Too many people confuse Catholicism with fundamentalism. While it is true that the Catholic church today is far more fundamentalist than it was in the 60s and 70s when I was growing up, it is not a fundamentalist, evangelical church.

That said, I no longer practice Catholicism because of its handling of the crimes against children and its extreme rightward bent of recent years.