Originally Posted by
syvalois
Anyway, if I can make a suggestion. Catholic will have enough bad press with the priest beating Jeanne-Marie. I think you should make her a good catholic and see this in a more positive light. And from experience, the best catholics I've seen are the ones that are not yelling about it, but are doing what they preach. They are not ashame of their fate but are more discret about it (sorry If I'm offending some people).
An interesting suggestion that brought Joan of Arc to mind.
I had an interesting exchanging with a Catholic lately -- Catholcism being the religion that history has set up to be the arch-rival of Teutonic belief -- involving the worthiness of such Catholics as Charlemagne, Willibrord and Boniface, any of whom shear honesty would beg a comparison with Hitler and his Nazi's.
Apparently the comparison deeply offended this Catholic, who thought that as a Catholic such deep offense was only proper.
My response to his outrage to to remind him of Alcuin of York, as much a Catholic as any of the aforementioned Saints, and as loyal as can be, but very much against the way Charlemagne and his pack of little missionary scoundrels conducted themselves in the ocnversion of the Continental Germanic peoples.
Another intresting fact is that Teutonic beleif and Catholicism share more in common than, say, Teutonic belief and modern day Wicca, or Catholicism and Protestantism or strictly Biblical Christianity. Oh what a tangled web we weave ...
Anyway, Joan of Arc might make for an interesting parallel once again.
Cheers!