“No, and it is so sad. As a convert to the Catholic faith, I see modern Catholics believing more like protestants everyday. They don’t want to believe as the Church teaches — as what God wants — they believe only in what they want. Modern Catholics believe that God changes with time, and if He doesn’t, then in His Infinite Mercy, God won’t let them go to hell.”
I am also a convert and so I believe in everything that the Church teaches.
And many times that is a huge difference between converts and cradle Catholics.
That makes three of us. I can’t believe how often cradle Catholics don’t realize what a gift they were given.
Then again, it makes a lot of sense because it’s human nature to undervalue what you didn’t have to work for. It also shows that while Satan doesn’t have to life a finger to keep non-Catholics constantly compromising with the society at large he works overtime distorting and subverting Church teaching to convince Catholics to go along with the society.
Christ is doing with His Church the same thing He did with Gideon. Winnowing down the size of the army so there won’t be any doubt about Christ being the reason we win.
Or mainline Protestants becoming more like Rome, who fosters the nominalism you reject by treating even overtly liberal nominal members as members in life and in death, even notorious public sinners who are sppsd to be excommunicated (Ted K. etc.). Meanwhile those who most distance themselves from here are substantially more conservative.