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A Convert's Pilgrimage
Catholics United for the Faith / Lay Witness Magazine ^
| Jul/Aug 2005
| Christopher Cuddy
Posted on 05/25/2007 5:19:25 PM PDT by Titanites
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posted on
05/25/2007 5:19:27 PM PDT
by
Titanites
To: Titanites
Never before had I come across such clear, intelligible, scripturally- saturated explanations of Catholic teaching. While I was intimately acquainted with the various facets of Protestant theology, I was almost completely ignorant of true Catholic teaching.I quickly learned that my understanding of Catholicism was extremely misinformed and that my ideas about Catholics were obviously wrong.
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posted on
05/25/2007 5:26:56 PM PDT
by
Titanites
To: Titanites
**and my childhood heroes included men like Martin Luther, John Calvin,...**
I don’t see how one can have both Luther and Calvin as heroes. Don’t their doctrines disagree with each other?
It would be like having both President Jefferson Davis of the C.S.A. and Lincoln as heroes. Or the Emperor Maximilian of Mexico and Juarez.
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posted on
05/25/2007 5:31:45 PM PDT
by
Macoraba
To: Macoraba
I dont see how one can have both Luther and Calvin as heroes. Dont their doctrines disagree with each other? Disagreement with Luther's doctrine doesn't seem to prevent many Protestants's from viewing Luther as a "hero" because of his role in the so-called Reformation.
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posted on
05/25/2007 6:36:18 PM PDT
by
Titanites
To: Titanites; Lady In Blue; Salvation; narses; SMEDLEYBUTLER; redhead; Notwithstanding; ...
I was also ardently anti-Catholic. I thought that the pope was the Antichrist, and that the Catholic Church was the whore of Babylon. Little did I know that things were about to change. Indeed!
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posted on
05/25/2007 6:43:13 PM PDT
by
NYer
("Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church" - Ignatius of Antioch)
To: LiteKeeper
By the end of that month, I had worked my way through about forty books on numerous issues in Catholic theology, apologetics, and history. I dont say this in a prideful way, but only to express how urgent all of this was to me. Never before had I come across such clear, intelligible, scripturally- saturated explanations of Catholic teaching. While I was intimately acquainted with the various facets of Protestant theology, I was almost completely ignorant of true Catholic teaching. I quickly learned that my understanding of Catholicism was extremely misinformed and that my ideas about Catholics were obviously wrong. And here is your reading assignment :-)
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posted on
05/25/2007 6:50:49 PM PDT
by
NYer
("Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church" - Ignatius of Antioch)
To: Titanites
Never before had I heard the saving Gospel of Jesus Christ described as divine sonship. I had always thought that justification was mere legal acquittal. An important point that would be a revelation to many of the sons of Luther.
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posted on
05/25/2007 6:52:40 PM PDT
by
livius
To: Titanites
**I thought that the pope was the Antichrist, and that the Catholic Church was the “whore of Babylon.”**
Regardless of their many doctrinal disagreements that is the one thing that ALL protestants have in common!
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posted on
05/25/2007 6:56:48 PM PDT
by
Macoraba
To: Titanites; Alex Murphy; LiteKeeper; Gamecock; Dr. Eckleburg
Outstanding article!
I had just finished a chapter from a book by a Catholic theologian on the Churchs teaching on salvation. Never before had I heard the saving Gospel of Jesus Christ described as divine sonship. I had always thought that justification was mere legal acquittal. This theologian was telling me that it was much more than that: It was divine adoption. Salvation meant being made a son of God.
This about says it all.
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posted on
05/25/2007 6:56:57 PM PDT
by
NYer
("Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church" - Ignatius of Antioch)
To: Titanites; LiteKeeper; Gamecock; Dr. Eckleburg
I quickly learned that my understanding of Catholicism Calvinism was extremely misinformed and that my ideas about Catholics Calvinists were obviously wrong. There. Fixed it.
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posted on
05/25/2007 7:29:07 PM PDT
by
Alex Murphy
(FR Member Alex Murphy: Declared Anathema By The Council Of Trent)
To: Titanites
**I was home.**
Wonderful words. And what a feeling that must be for converts. The story of a lady in our parish — she was Lutheran and had moved to the little town close to Salem. She set out a plan to follow down the main road reasearching locations and attending each church in the path. When she got to the Catholic Church, her words, “I knew I was home.” And she searched no more. She was received into the Catholic Church this last Easter Vigil and is already active in parish activities.
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posted on
05/25/2007 7:32:22 PM PDT
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: Titanites
A fellow convert’s welcome to Mr. Cuddy. May Our Lord bless and keep him as he begins what will no doubt be a lifetime of significant contribution to the Church Christ founded. We are truly blessed to have him!
To: Alex Murphy
Alex, it looks like he already “fixed” it.
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posted on
05/25/2007 7:39:43 PM PDT
by
vladimir998
(Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
To: vladimir998
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posted on
05/25/2007 7:41:17 PM PDT
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: Titanites
Nothing is more amusing to the convert, when his conversion has been complete for some time, than to hear the speculations about when or whether he will repent of the conversion; when he will be sick of it, how long he will stand it, at what stage of his external exasperation he will start up and say he can bear it no more. For all this is founded on that optical illusion about the outside and the inside which I have tried to sketch in this chapter. The outsiders, stand by and see, or think they see, the convert entering with bowed head a sort of small temple which they are convinced is fitted up inside like a prison, if not a torture-chamber. But all they really know about it is that he has passed through a door. They do not know that he has not gone into the inner darkness, but out into the broad daylight. It is he who is, in the beautiful and beatific sense of the word, an outsider.
-G. K. Chesterton
To: Macoraba
the one thing that ALL protestants have in common! Wrong!
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posted on
05/25/2007 7:46:03 PM PDT
by
LiteKeeper
(Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
To: Alex Murphy
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posted on
05/25/2007 7:46:47 PM PDT
by
LiteKeeper
(Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
To: Alex Murphy
Trying to mess things up again?? LOL!
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posted on
05/25/2007 8:03:27 PM PDT
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: Titanites
I will keep this thread in mind whenever another thread is accused of “bashing Catholics”.
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posted on
05/25/2007 8:11:08 PM PDT
by
ikka
To: Macoraba
Regardless of their many doctrinal disagreements that is the one thing that ALL protestants have in common! You're wrong.
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