Now it seems as if the US is swirling down the same cesspool that Western Europe has been caught up in since WWII. Is this the time for Catholics to assert our religious superiority over all other religions and Christian sects? Is this the time to tell everyone else they are going to Hell?
It is a real conundrum. If there is truly nothing special about Catholicism, then why be Catholic? On the other hand, if being Catholic is the only certain way to get to Heaven, then we either convert non-Catholics or anger them and harden their hearts against us.
Some of the most heated and hateful threads on FR have been Catholic v. Protestant (and Protestant v. Protestant). Do we want to stoke those flames, especially now with the US so close to going totally pagan?
Catholicism is the true faith. The problem is a Church in part led by liberals who are perhaps not even Christians. This has been the trouble since the 18th century.
We all just need to come up with a platform for reunification that isn’t based on liberalism. (By the way, does the Catholic Church really teach that Protestants are going to hell? I thought the Vatican II declarations about ecumenism put that to rest.)
Yeah, proselytism one of things Catholics can't bring themselves to do because they associate it with Protestantism (two others are total Biblical inerrancy and young earth creationism). It doesn't matter what the ancient church fathers believed or did; if American Protestants do it or believe it then Catholics simply can't!
Catholicism (Orthodoxy too) have for centuries been nothing but ethnic religions, sort of counterfeit Judaisms without Sinai.
I know back when I converted I had to take the initiative every step along the way.