This was sent to us from Norm R. We receive many great emails and responses to newsletters. We can’t use them all, but we’d like to use more. Share your pithy thoughts by responding to any newsletter message and be clear how you’d like your name cited. Now, on with Norm’s most cherished Bible memories: Still searching for a reason to return to my youth-religion, Roman Catholicism, I undertook to study the Bible, trying to assess what really was said about such items as the Annunciation and the birth of Jesus, hoping, too, to find references to such Church teachings as the Assumption of Mary. What I found was that Mother Church had constructed a whole wardrobe of yarns from its own cloth. No Assumption; no substantiation, in fact, for the whole Blessed Virgin Mary cult. Perhaps I was not surprised, as I had doubted features of the Holy Family story since I was young. Having made a start on the Bible, I decided to read it from cover to cover, an exercise I now suggest to anyone who...
