See, I was brought up Catholic, right from the git-go. Kindygarden, grade school with nuns, high school with Christian Brothers, college with Franciscans. Hell's bells, I got better than 21 semester hours of college-level theology and 12 years of grade school and high school "religion." I also got 21+ semester hours of philosophy. I've done read the "Summa" (yes, all of it, and I mean both the "Theologica" and the "Contra Gentiles"), St. John the Divine, the "Civitas Dei," Aquinas, Bonaventure, Origen, and all them old-time cats. Heck, I've even been to Knock and The Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in DC and I've driven past the road to Lourdes. Fer goodness' sakes, my wife used to work under the Golden Dome at, YES!, the University of Notre Dame du Lac, right there in Indiana and I used to (are you ready for this??) lector in the Basilica there. Me and the BVM are tight, man, just like me and her kid are.

Just now, was that lightni