text: Well, I guess that's OK for the most part; but it's not exactly what I was referring to. "Christ" is a title given to Jesus of Nazareth by (some of) his followers, and their practice has persisted to the present among the faithful. But saying that Jesus was no less than the "Anointed One," a not well defined figure mentioned in the OT, is one of a number of extraordinary assertions that the faithful make about him, in which they are typically not joined by non-believers. You may very well believe that the story in Luke 2 of the finding of the boy Jesus in the Temple really happened, and that it conveys a reliable datum regarding the identity of Jesus, and his relation to God ("the Father"). But not all readers of that gospel are persuaded that that is the best way to explain the origin of that story. And more to the point of your conversation with John Hobson, not all Catholics are so persuaded -- and yet for all that they are undeniably fine and true Catholics.