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To: Legatus
I brought my mother to tears when I told her I was entering the Catholic Church, my father didn’t speak to me for years. I gave up everything because I believed I had no choice if I wanted everlasting life and now pope Francis seems to be saying it was all for nothing.

How did you determine the bible and your parents were wrong and the Catholic religion was right???

153 posted on 07/12/2014 7:40:34 PM PDT by Iscool
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To: Iscool
How did you determine the bible and your parents were wrong and the Catholic religion was right???

You present a false dichotomy by throwing the Bible into the mix. It's not the Church OR the Bible it's the Church AND the Bible.

You're asking for my conversion story and it's long and difficult to explain. The concise version is that I played the prodigal son for about 10 years during which time God used various sledgehammers to remind me that He existed and expected my complete surrender. When I finally broke I asked Him where to go and what to do and He led me directly into the Catholic Church. There was some kicking and screaming involved in the journey and for the last 17 years I've known I'm where I'm supposed to be.

Although the utterances of the current bishop of Rome have bothered me a great deal I don't see any signs that it's time to move on to something else, and when God wants me to stop and go a different direction there's no subtlety or still small voice. It usually involves a battering ram and a bull horn, I guess that's what I need.

166 posted on 07/13/2014 9:39:16 AM PDT by Legatus (Either way, we're screwed.)
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