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To: Adiemus

Join the Catholic Church. Yes, there are some Catholic's who want this so-called progressive change too, but by and large, the Catholic Church is sticking to its origins. Of course, I'm not saying that the Catholic Church has no problems.

No, I'm not Catholic
I am a catholic and I say come home. The latest announcements from the Vatican should make any conservative Christian very comfortable.


42 posted on 10/23/2005 4:56:46 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Bring the troops home means bring the war home.)
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To: jmaroneps37; Adiemus
As a former Episcopalian now happily a Catholic in a great, orthodox, active parish, let me add my voice . . .

If you are from a fairly "high" church, as we were, nothing will seem strange at all. We had what my husband calls the "Come to Jesus Meeting" with the rector, and discovered that our only points of difference were the validity of Anglican orders and the supremacy of the Pope. Since "by their fruits ye shall know them" the orders were a point we were perfectly willing to give up on, and since the problem in the ECUSA stems largely from a total absence of adult leadership, we didn't have a problem with that either.

Now, if you are from a "low" parish you may have problems with such points of doctrine as the Real Presence and the veneration of the Blessed Virgin, but I do not believe those problems are insuperable. Scott Hahn's books may be useful for you.

Many folks are leery about the Catholic Church for non-fact-based reasons -- things (as Will Rogers said) that they have heard that just ain't so. I would at the very least look into it seriously.

This is a book that I have found particularly helpful to those coming from the Episcopal or Anglican churches: This Is The Faith. It was written by the head of the Catholic Missionary Society in England, so it speaks particularly to somebody who is in the Anglican Communion. It IS a trifle old-fashioned, but that will probably give you a better picture of the Catholic faith as a whole instead of the watered-down anxious-not-to-offend materials you get in some OCIA classes.

50 posted on 10/24/2005 8:08:07 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
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