Caltholic Array of Deeply Held Opinions ...

Geoff Bannister gbannister10 at tiscali.co.uk
Thu Sep 18 20:47:16 UTC 2008


--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Kai Wen Lee <leekaiwen at ...> wrote:

CJ:

> Yes, catholic  (from Latin kata "according to" and holos "the whole") means universal, and 
has been used by the Catholic Church to describe itself since Ignatius in the second century 
as the universal church.
> 
> However, I think the reporter misspoke. She/he/it probably didn't mean to say either that 
Daniel's opinions were universal, or that he's expounded opinions on every possible subject. 
I guess a better word would have been "eclectic".

Geoff:
Isn't that a word used by Arthur Weasley to describe things like plugs?
:-)))





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