[afraidfortherepublic]

FGS, take an RCIA class and convert already! The author is just making excuses.

[vladimir998]

“The main reason I am not (yet) Catholic and remain a Methodist and an ordained Methodist elder is that I do not know how to become Catholic without betraying the people who taught me to love God, pray, worship, desire the Eucharist, take delight in scripture, and so on. How can I leave the people I love?”

You don’t even have the Eucharist. You don’t even have a complete Bible. Don’t leave the people you love. Bring them along.

[Legatus]

I support women’s ordination.

I stopped reading there, clearly this guy isn't ready yet.

[Carthego delenda est]

“In fact, Catholics have often been better at reform than Protestants, as Karl Barth acknowledged after Vatican II.”

“Gee, if only there was a Vatican XXV...”
“Can’t we all just get along?”

Lol

[DManA]

I guarantee you there was more to the firing than just an essay.

That essay cost me a job at a Protestant evangelical institution.

[MeganC]

On the day we are reconciled, I hope the Catholic Church will welcome us with this kind of humility.

Hmph. I was planning on welcoming the Catholics.

[ealgeone]

Let me give an example of the latter. I largely support, with some qualifications, the Affordable Care Act. Providing health care for everyone seems to me to be fulfilling a command Jesus gave to us to love our neighbor.

More of the social gospel. No where do we have in the NT the example/exhortation for us to have guvment "love" our neighbor.

[ealgeone]

Every good Protestant Christian must be willing to return to Rome for the sake of the unity of the church once the “Reformation” is over.

Maybe every "good" catholic should come out of the Roman Catholic Church and become a Christian.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

As a former Methodist who converted to Orthodoxy, I can tell him to wait until the reasons for converting are more compelling than those for not converting. And, once converted, to accept what the church teaches, even if he doesn’t quite understand it. Don’t go in intending to reform or change the church. That is, don’t be what Frank Schaeffer is (or was) to Orthodoxy. For me, it all became very simple. I walked into an Orthodox church one Sunday morning and I knew I was home. He needs that conviction.

[Ransomed]

“Nevertheless, I find the absence of women in leadership deeply problematic...I struggle to affirm Catholic teaching on contraception.”

Try to find one person of any faith who accepts women clergy/pastors but hasn’t accepted bc within marriage. I’ve never come across one, anyhow.

Freegards

[metmom]

My Church Loyalties

Right there is a problem.

No one can serve two masters.

Our loyalty should be to Jesus first and foremost.

Church affiliation and loyalty should be way down on the list of priorities.

[AppyPappy]

Ask Mary to help you. If she doesn’t answer, you’re supposed to be a Protestant.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Thanks for posting this. Naturally, I can;t say I agree with everything he says, but I like the guy. He comes off as honest --- not offensive, not defensive, just displaying where he is, which is a perplexing place, but there he is.

He's a person I'd like to pray with. He's a person I'd like to meet.