[ex-snook]

"Personal testimony is of limited value."

That comment means, you didn't even read it. If you would post the references of some Catholic clergy who have swam away from Rome, I would certainly read them.

[CommerceComet]

That comment means, you didn't even read it.

I'm not following you - what is it? My statement? The quotes from the Protestants-turned-Catholics? By what reasoning would you conclude that I hadn't read whatever it is?

If you would post the references of some Catholic clergy who have swam away from Rome, I would certainly read them.

Frankly, I would hope that you'd rely on more reliable evidence than testimony. I'm not in a habit of providing a bunch of quotes because regardless of the relevance of the quote and the credibility of the quoted individual, the bottom line is that it is still an opinion and every person (including popes speaking ex cathedra) is subject to human frailty and may be wrong. Only God's testimony is true.

Insisting that quotes or experiences must be accepted as valid reminds me of Mormons insisting that the indefensible is true because of their burning in the bosom.

[boatbums]

If you would post the references of some Catholic clergy who have swam away from Rome, I would certainly read them.

Here is a FR thread from last year that gives some of them:

Testimonies from ex-Roman Catholic Priests

They are excerpted from Richard Bennet's Far from Rome, Near to God: Testimonies of 50 Converted Roman Catholic Priests.