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Fr. Lane - Part III

With modern Catholicism in the United States, where we are heirs of John Calvin's culture-- this is our culture --it's why in the United States when we need a catechetical since we're running short of priests and religious we have to have all these elaborate programs to train teachers and so forth. But in Mexico or Latin America you can just go to your congregation and say, "well you're the catechist, go and witness to the Faith". What's the difference? Well the difference is their culture is Catholic and so their instincts are Catholic. Our culture is not Catholic, it is post-Calvinist Calvinist. The religious part of it no long matters but the consequences of it are still with us and shape the world in which we live.