text: "And also because the average American parish and the average evangelical church just aren't that different anymore."
  
  Certainly not so in the South, South West or CA! While Catholics in parishes do see themselves by their likenesses to evangelicals (especially in relation to abortion, social issues), they also see themselves by their differences, especially regarding private devotions (Marian devotion, most especially), the rosary, Eucharistic adoration, sacraments, pilgrimages (popular among Catholics with disposable incomes), formal liturgies, etc. Evangelicals are just not into those manifestations or expressions of faith. What the Lord says in Scripture is the evangelicals' favorite expression of faith, as it were, not knowing what to do with private revelations and miraculous occurrences that arise and come about in the ordinary lives of their Anglo and Latino Catholic neighbors.