1) No 2) Learned about, but didn't actually read any in high school. Although history was my least favorite subject and I dropped it for extra science classes Senior year of HS.
And as someone who was raised Catholic and is now an active Lutheran, I would not be at all shocked if none of your Catholic students knew how similar/different the two are. I grew up in an Irish Catholic family from Long Island, and can honestly say that I learned nothing about any other forms of Christianity until college. I didn't happen to have any active Protestant friends in high school (although I did learn a lot about Islam, Hinduism, and Judaism-New Jersey is an interesting mix) and there is no discussion about other faiths, even in a historical sense, in Sunday School/CCD. I was shocked when I went through my "conversion" classes, since there was one night dedicated to the history of the Lutheran Church, and one night dedicated to comparing and contrasting the Lutheran faith with other Christian denominations. If not for that class, I would have no idea of the differences in Christian beliefs.
And as a frame of reference, when my mom found out I was going to a Lutheran Church, instead of being happy that I was spiritually happy, she was concerned that I had joined a cult and they were trying to steal my money. A cult. Of Lutherans. Sigh.
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2) Learned about, but didn't actually read any in high school. Although history was my least favorite subject and I dropped it for extra science classes Senior year of HS.
And as someone who was raised Catholic and is now an active Lutheran, I would not be at all shocked if none of your Catholic students knew how similar/different the two are. I grew up in an Irish Catholic family from Long Island, and can honestly say that I learned nothing about any other forms of Christianity until college. I didn't happen to have any active Protestant friends in high school (although I did learn a lot about Islam, Hinduism, and Judaism-New Jersey is an interesting mix) and there is no discussion about other faiths, even in a historical sense, in Sunday School/CCD. I was shocked when I went through my "conversion" classes, since there was one night dedicated to the history of the Lutheran Church, and one night dedicated to comparing and contrasting the Lutheran faith with other Christian denominations. If not for that class, I would have no idea of the differences in Christian beliefs.
And as a frame of reference, when my mom found out I was going to a Lutheran Church, instead of being happy that I was spiritually happy, she was concerned that I had joined a cult and they were trying to steal my money. A cult. Of Lutherans. Sigh.