Why do you take so much pleasure in your persistent endeavor? Has any of these stories reported on even a single new conversion to Christ? Or do you consider that nonCatholics are heathens and only Catholics can be saved?
Although non-Catholics mostly differ, Catholics believe that the Catholic Church is the Church that Jesus founded. We further believe that the Church is the Body of Christ, and only those who are part of the Body of Christ can be saved. Thus, only those within the Catholic Church can be saved.
Whether others believe it or not isn't the point; it is what we believe.
However.
We do not believe that those who are within the Church all have formal membership in the Church. We believe that there are people who are formally outside the Catholic Church who are, nonetheless, mysteriously connected to the Catholic Church in a way that is possibly salvific.
Nonetheless, our belief is that formal membership in the Catholic Church, the Church given to us by Jesus Himself, the Body of Christ, is the surest path to salvation.
Thus, why would we not rejoice when someone comes into full communion with the Catholic Church, the Body of Christ?
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Yes. I maintain the 'Catholic Ping List' and post articles of interest to Catholics. Would you like to be added to the list?
That is, you seem to celebrate, in a triumphal manner, anecdotes of Protestants becoming Catholic.
??? The only comment I posted to this thread was the word: Ping! Now, if I were truly celebrating, rest assured my comment would have reflected the mood: 'Excelsior!', for example, or 'Eureeka!'
Has any of these stories reported on even a single new conversion to Christ?
Absolutely! I have posted many stories of conversions but don't keep track of them. Here is one I do remember:
Interview with Roy Schoeman - A Jewish Convert
Or do you consider that nonCatholics are heathens and only Catholics can be saved?
I don't believe that nor does the Catholic Church teach that
The reality of the situation is that the flow of high ranking protestant theologians and prelates into the Catholic Church, has made news. As the unofficial Catholic News freeper, I post these stories for the edification of all freepers, not just the catholics.
Just out of curiosity, why does this story bother you?
This shouldn't be viewed merely as an antecdote about switching church affiliation. This is about rejecting the sin that the Anglican Communion appears to have embraced and desires to institutionalize. It is cause for celebration that not all members of that church are willing to follow blithely into perdition. We should appreciate the enormous difficulty these decisions are for the members of that church and be grateful that, at least in some instances, modernism is being repudiated, and traditional morality is being affirmed. That is what is a triumph. Deo gratias.
Question: “Why do you take so much pleasure in your persistent endeavor?”
Answer: What man of you that hath an hundred sheep: and if he shall lose one of them, doth he not leave the ninety-nine in the desert, and go after that which was lost, until he find it? 5 And when he hath found it, lay it upon his shoulders, rejoicing:
6 And coming home, call together his friends and neighbours, saying to them: Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost?