Tale of Two Cities: A Comparison Between the Mormon and the Catholic Religious Experience

As a priest with Mormon roots, I have frequently been asked to explain Mormon beliefs. What follows is an effort to answer a need. It is not an attack on Mormonism. I have too much love and respect for the gently and beautiful Mormons in my family to do a thing like that. But I think that Catholics need a point by point comparison between their beliefs and those of the Latter-Day Saints. And so I will try to state the Mormon viewpoint as honestly as possible, using Mormon sources and with apologies for my distortion. When I turn to the Catholic viewpoint. I will speak as a post-Vatican II, Rocky Mountain Catholic in love with his faith with no apologies for that.