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To: jacero10
If you recall the hostility which met Francis Beckwith on his blog when he announced his conversion, you will know what I am talking about.

Well, if it is in a blog then it must be true for most. ;)

Can it really be so hard to imagine

I can imagine a lot of things. What I said was that I had not seen it occur.

Protestant schools will fire Catholic Converts from their faculties without discussion?

Can the Catholic convert teach what he/she no longer believes in, or will that convert be duty-bound to teach Catholic doctrine? If the latter, then ethically speaking, he/she should have left the school on their own.

I know of no Catholic college or university which has the same narrow and bigoted policy.

So a Catholic college would have no problem with a convert to Protestantism teaching their own beliefs? Or would that college require that the convert teach something they no longer believe?

Can you say with a straight face that Catholic and Protestant converts are treated the same by the churches the leave?

Yes, from what I have observed. To say otherwise, you should be prepared to present documentation of church policy. Do all people behave the same? No. That doesn't mean an individual's behavior is church policy.

42 posted on 09/18/2007 7:47:39 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: MEGoody
So a Catholic college would have no problem with a convert to Protestantism teaching their own beliefs? Or would that college require that the convert teach something they no longer believe?

Here at Notre Dame, we have all kinds of Protestants teaching in theology. It is not a problem. They teach church history, systematics and liturgy. As a Catholic I could teach buddhism if I knew it well enough. It is far more dangerous to have a bad Catholic misrepresent Catholic theology than to have a Protestant teach Catholic theology respectfully and responsibly.

Apparently, Protestants dont get this important distinction. Or they use their feigned ignorance of this distinction to justify persecution of Catholic converts. It is a hateful thing.

44 posted on 09/18/2007 7:55:45 AM PDT by jacero10 (Non nobis domine, sed nomine tuo da gloriam.)
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