Yeah, those Catholics knew how to do religion right. They knew that religion is supposed to inspire awe, astonishment and the sense of something bigger than life in people and understood the role of theatrics to attain that goal. A very different animal from the feel-good-about-myself variety that developed on this side of the pond.
PS. On a second thought, Catholic-style religiosity was not such a bad thing after all, its known shortcomings notwithstanding. People need awe, astonishment and a sense of not being the center of the world and there being something bigger than them - for otherwise they start behaving like pigs, mindlessly grubbing themselves with junk, shitting all around themselves, and responding only to a whip.
Wojtek