[Zionist Conspirator]

I thought the Catholic Church was against proselytizing or converting people from other religions? At least that's what they say whenever some poor Baptist hands a Catholic a tract.

Apparently it all depends on who's doing the converting.

[AnAmericanMother]

I have never, ever heard that. Matthew 28:18-20 hasn't been struck from the Bible to my knowledge.

Btw, my Catholic daughter goes to Bible study at a Baptist Church, because the Catholic campus center doesn't have one.

[markomalley]

I thought the Catholic Church was against proselytizing or converting people from other religions? At least that's what they say whenever some poor Baptist hands a Catholic a tract.

Apparently it all depends on who's doing the converting.

If you can show me in this story where some Catholic handed this gentleman a tract, I'd appreciate it.

Unless, of course, this qualifies as proseltyzing:

Lieutenant Colonel Kappler took advantage of the deportation order that he had received for extortion. He summoned the two men presiding over the Jewish community in Rome, and demanded they deliver 50 kilos of gold to him in twenty-four hours, or else all the men in the Jewish population in the city would be deported immediately. In fact, it was a matter of a list of three hundred hostages, at the top of which Zolli appeared. The next day, the Jewish community had been able to collect only 35 kilos of gold. They asked the Chief Rabbi to go to the Vatican to try to borrow what was missing. He succeeded in entering the Vatican, all the exits of which were monitored by the Gestapo, by a hidden door in the back of the City, and explained his request for a loan of 15 kilos of gold to Pius XII's Secretary of State, Cardinal Maglione. He gave his own person as a security. The prelate consulted with the Holy Father, then asked Zolli to return before one o'clock in the afternoon. But shortly thereafter, Zolli learned that the quantity of gold required had already been collected, thanks to contributions from priests and numerous Catholic organizations.

But maybe you see something I didn't in the piece.

[Nihil Obstat]

During the feast of Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) in October 1944, he presided over the prayers of Great Pardon in the synagogue in Rome. 'Suddenly,' he wrote, 'I saw, with the eyes of the mind, a large prairie, and standing in the middle of the green grass was Jesus, dressed in a white robe... At the sight of this, I felt a great interior peace, and, from the depths of my heart, I heard these words: 'You are here for the last time. From now on, you will follow Me.' I received them in the greatest serenity, and my heart immediately responded, 'As it shall be, so it must be.'... An hour later, after supper, in my room, my wife declared to me, 'Today, while you were standing before the Ark of the Torah, it seemed to me that the white figure of Jesus was laying His hands on you, as if He were blessing you.' I was stupefied... At that very moment, our younger daughter, Miriam, who had gone to her room and hadn't heard anything, called for me to tell me, 'You are in the middle of talking about Jesus Christ. You know, Papa, this evening I saw a big Jesus, all white, in a dream.' I wished them both a good night and, without feeling at all ill at ease, I continued to think about the extraordinary sequence of events.'

Jesus converted him

[Pyro7480]

Some clerics and laity may be against it. The need for conversion still stands.