I agree with you on the inherent traditions that protestants have, but are unaware of. Having a baptist wife and baptist in-laws I always noticed that they start their “spur of the moment” prayer for grace with “Dear Heavenly Father” and end with “in Jesus’ name we pray”. Nothing wrong with that, just that they had developed a structured pray but thought it unstructured, because after all if it was structured it would be vain repetition -and we can’t have that!

RCIA hit home as well, but given that it was the early to mid 90’s I’m not suprised about the lack of justification in the study. That’s a product of the “spirit of Vat II” IMO. It’s still not where it needs to be, but I think there’s some improvement.

Albert’s argument is common for anti-Catholics. It misunderstands the concept of development of doctrine. I think often deliberately so. A man obviously feels connected to the boy he was when he was 10. The fact that he has a beard and grey hair and, as a10 year old, he did not is just not relevant. They are the same person. Same thing with the church. It is the same body.