catholics & protestants

Monday 2 November 2009

I’ve visited and spoken at many Catholic and Protestant universities and colleges in the USA. A useful generalization: the Protestant institutions, especially the more evangelical ones, are likely to provide bad food, no wine, and excellent technology that works. The Catholic institutions, especially the more orthodox ones, are likely to provide good food, good wine, and technology that doesn’t work or that no one present knows how to make work. There are exceptions: this is a generalization, after all; but I think it a suggestive one.