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I think of what exactly prevents my being a Roman Catholic and I know that I would have to overcome my theological difference with: immaculate conception, assumption, veration of leadership and of saints & angels, and opulence.

Brother, those are easily swept away if you believed that Christ left a group (called apostles) authority to preach and teach the Gospel, guaranteeing that Holy Spirit would preserve this body of teachings for all time against the gates of hell. It is easy to believe if you see in the Pastorals the first generation of Apostles passing the "torch" to the next generation. Once that step is made, the rest is cake... (at least for me, it was). Once I got there, I knew that my faith had to precede my understanding of such doctrines - in time, I would come to understand the "why" of the Immaculate Conception, etc.

Regards

Yours is a kind and a welcoming comment, and I want to recognize and honor that.

Through our Lord may we all come to greater unity and insight.