I watch a lot of interactions between Catholics and Protestants on social media, and I've noticed four things Catholics often say to Protestants that they really shouldn't.

So let's take a look at what not to say.

Number one, Protestant churches are always ugly, Catholic churches are always beautiful.

Recently I came across this meme showing a simple church allegedly being the

most ornate Protestant church and a beautiful Catholic church being the least ornate Catholic church.

And when I hear that, I say, what kind of incense have you been smoking? Most Catholic churches

I've attended are bland or beige, as Bishop Barron might say.

They aren't hideous, but they aren't memorable either.

They're just the product of uninspired architectural trends in the 1970s.

And you don't get to ignore them because you just really want to dunk on Protestant architecture.

In fact, the atrocious example of church architecture I used in my

episode on why liberals love ugly art was the Catholic Newman Center at UC Berkeley. Now, it's true,

a lot of Protestant churches are also bland, but there are Protestant churches that have beautiful

architectural designs that inspire genuine awe in those who see them. There's the Episcopal

Cathedral of St. John the Divine, built to rival St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York,

the Hall Grimskerja in Iceland, and St. Matthew's Lutheran Church in Charleston. Finally, the Catholic

Church in this meme is the San Augustine Church in the Philippines. It's a 400-year-old church in a

country where 80% of the

population is Catholic. In contrast, the simple Protestant church in this meme is a church in Algeria,

where the population is 99% Muslim. Christians have very limited religious freedom in the country,

and the government recently closed churches for allegedly not being registered with them.

According to this article, Yusef Oraman, the leader of a Protestant church in Algeria,

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