Meet the post-VatII Church. You came into the Church at a bad time. Once upon a time, your (Catholic) pastor would have been tripping all over himself to get your mother into the Church. And then suddenly we got to the post-VatII "it's all groovy" Catholic Church.
Converts practically have to fight to get into the Church. I have met many people who have had this experience.
That has not been my experience, AT ALL.
If what you say is true, how come the number of Catholics is growing, dramatically, every year? Over 200,000 people came into the Catholic Church in the United States last year. That's pretty impressive.
Converts practically have to fight to get into the Church. I have met many people who have had this experience.
I entered the Church on my own initiative (which is the only way, aside from being born Irish or Italian that one can get in). And Catholicism certainly practices what it preaches on this one issue, since it condemns missionary activity by other churches and doesn't engage in them itself. In fact, Catholicism and Judaism seem identical on this one issue (but that doesn't stop Catholics from hypocritically condemning Jews for being anti-missionary).
Perhaps you will explain to me why the Catholic Church has no problem with the millions of superstitious and illiterate peasants that have always made up the bulk of its membership while being absolutely allergic to Anglo-American peasants whose "superstition" consists of the Bible being literally true. Why is everyone welcome except Biblical literalists? And why are poor rural Heartland Anglo-American Fundamentalists any more stupid than Juan Diego or those Italians who wrap snakes around some saint's statue every year? Would you please explain that to me?
Are you afraid we'll all turn into Oliver Cromwell and start hanging you from lampposts?