A bit harsh. After all, what's a little popery between friends? As to my own retardation I will make no defense, but the Catholic intellectual tradition bares some reflection. From beginning to more recent some obscure thinkers that may have grace your reading: Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, [your dear reformation occurs here], Bellarmine, Newman, MacIntyre. Tell me dear Matt, am I to conclude these men are as dense as I?