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Lent is the season for conversion of hearts.


2 posted on 02/20/2007 6:42:11 PM PST by NYer ("Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church" - Ignatius of Antioch)
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Thank you for posting this beautiful story.

Certainly our elder brothers in Israel may be concerned . . . particularly in the context of sensitivity about assimilation and disappearance of the Jewish people into the general culture. I know that Orthodox Jews particularly treat a convert as one dead (I know personally a man whose parents put up a gravestone when he became an Episcopalian) -- and given all the slanders that are bruited about concerning Catholics and especially Pope Pius, the knee-jerk reaction is to be offended.

But stop and think a moment -- this is one man's story of what happened to him in his life. It was real, and it happened, and you can't sweep it under the carpet and pretend it somehow didn't occur.

And I don't see any way of getting around the possibility of offending people of other faiths -- the alternative is self-censorship and reluctance to obey the Great Commission. And that is exactly what the secularists (who hate Catholics, Jews, and every other strong faith) would like to see -- all religious discussion forbidden for fear of offending somebody.

52 posted on 02/21/2007 6:38:08 AM PST by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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