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To: TheCrusader
It's on the table! That's what I'm saying!

(We are "nosebleed high Anglican", or as my dad says, "up in the rafters with the bats".)

But given all the complaining here on FR about Vatican II, folk masses, communion in both kinds and in the hand, mean short haired feminist theologians, heretical priests, etc., we are going to take a long hard look at our local bishop and nearby parishes before we take the plunge. No point in going from the Episcopal frying pan into the Catholic fire!

357 posted on 09/26/2003 1:42:35 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . Nil novi sub soli . . .)
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To: AnAmericanMother
No point in going from the Episcopal frying pan into the Catholic fire!

For my part, I would welcome you aboard if you choose to become Catholic. I note that you're flying a Georgia flag. None of the dioceses which prohibit altar-girls are in Georgia. I seem to recall that about a decade ago one of the bishops in Georgia was a real bad actor, and his replacement was specifically charged with cleaning up the mess. I also seem to recall that he had done a decent job of it.

The problems "folk masses, communion in both kinds and in the hand, mean short haired feminist theologians, heretical priests, etc." are not evenly distributed. Virginia, for example, has one diocese (Arlington) which is often held up as an exemplar of orthodoxy, and another (Richmond) which is an exemplar of lunacy.

358 posted on 09/26/2003 1:51:26 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard
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To: AnAmericanMother
"No point in going from the Episcopal frying pan into the Catholic fire!"

My brother in law is an Episcopal convert to Catholicism - he will never go back. He, and I, both attend the old fashioned Catholic Tridentine, (Latin), Mass. The innovations found in the modern Catholic Church are merely what the Protestants sought after for so long. But they will not last. Perhaps you could come on over to the true Church and add a much needed conservative dimension to her. It has always been said that converts make the best Catholics, and I agree with this 100%.

359 posted on 09/26/2003 1:51:37 PM PDT by TheCrusader
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