From Tradition To Truth: A Priest’s Story

Your point?

Mrs. Prince of Space

Well, to sum it up, forget about traditions, rituals and ceremonies that are designed by men to make you feel Holy but in reality are actually placing you far from God. Turn to the Bible and go straight to the Lord yourself. You don’t need priests, nuns, saints or Mary to help you. Christ is the only way.

John 14:6

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

I love Catholics. I married one. Bibles won’t do a person any good unless they understand what’s written therein.

Always interesting to hear what brings about changes in a persons spiritual perspective!

thanks for YOUR great comments! i agree wholeheartedley

I have only one Bible,tho, but numerous prayer books including Saint Andrew Daily Missal oddly enough w/eng/latin

PERSONALLY i think there’s been way too much Catholic bashing around here.

It comes in the form of subliminal articles such as this;sour grapes and all.

Everyone’s journey is unique and so is your relationship with your Creator.

the other thing that comes to mind in this additional post is this:
There have been Catholics thru the world that have died for their faith including all the priests and nuns that went to the gas chambers during the Holocaust and in many other situations ,too.

There are Catholics who have converted to Judaism and vice versa. Does St. Edith Stein ring a bell? (1891-1942)

That guy is sour grapes and I’m tired of this Catholic bashing here on FR

You wrote:

“I love Catholics.”

What a crock!

By Karl Keating:

WILL THE REAL RICHARD BENNETT PLEASE STAND UP?

In 1963, when he was 25, Richard Bennett, a native of Ireland, was ordained to the Catholic priesthood. In 1985 he abandoned the priesthood and Catholicism. Today he is a Fundamentalist missionary and decidedly anti-Catholic.

He runs a small ministry known as the Berean Beacon (www.bereanbeacon.org). At his web site he has an archive of articles, one of which is called “The Antichrist Unveiled.” The final line in that article says that the testimony of “martyrs and reformers” “was that Papal Rome is the Babylon of prophecy, ‘that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth,’ and that its head, the Roman pontiff, is the predicted ‘Man of Sin,’ or Antichrist.”

Most Fundamentalists do not go so far as to claim that the pope is the Antichrist. They realize that Scripture refers to the Antichrist as being a particular man, and, if a pope is the Antichrist, which pope would that be? There are so many to choose from! If they say, “the current pope,” they look a bit ridiculous, since John Paul II has not performed a single act that is attributed by Scripture to the Antichrist.

Bennett also offers his “Life Testimony” at his site. It reads as many others read: lots of little facts, but big things seem to be missing. The reasons offered for his disillusionment with Catholicism and conversion to Fundamentalism just don’t add up. They are too insubstantial.

Do intelligent people really abandon the Catholic Church because they suddenly discover that some Catholics, including some priests and bishops, are venal or ignorant?

I can imagine how a youth who lived under overly protective parents might venture into the world for the first time and be surprised, but how long can that surprise last? Seminary life 40 years ago was more sheltered than it is today, but were the new ordinands of 1963 really so cut off from the world and from an understanding of human nature? I doubt it.

If a man throws up his hands and says, “I can’t be a priest any longer; I can’t serve with such men any longer,” is there anything that necessarily impels him toward Fundamentalism? Wouldn’t it make more sense for such a man to set aside religion entirely, at least for a while, as he sorts out his life?

Something in Bennett’s story just doesn’t add up.

Go to his site and see the other conversion stories he has posted. One is by A.J. Krause. Among other things, Krause discusses the meaning of “rock” in Matthew 16:18. He seems unaware that the argument he proffers has been refuted innumerable times by Catholic apologists.

No, in Matthew 16:18 “rock” does not refer to Jesus or to Peter’s profession of faith. The only interpretation that makes sense is that the word refers to Peter himself, as I explained at length in “Catholicism and Fundamentalism” and as many other Catholics have explained in other books. Krause makes no attempt to grapple with the Catholic rebuttal; he does not even seem to be aware that there is one.

The top page of the Berean Beacon web site sports photographs of Richard Bennett and A.J. Krause. They look like regular guys. One could imagine spending a pleasant evening with them, if the topic of discussion were not religion.

Krause I take to be an enthusiastic new convert to Fundamentalism; allowances must be made for him. Bennett is in a different category, since he has every reason to know better. Like some other ex-priests I know, Bennett brings to mind the young fellow who, having jilted his girlfriend, now takes every opportunity to talk her down.

There is something ungentlemanly and unseemly in that.

http://www.catholic.com/newsletters/kke_030909.asp

bump to myself.

Another day in Lent, another attack on the One, True Church. Sigh.

Another day in Lent, another attack on the One, True Church. Sigh.

Yup! You could almost set your clock to it.

Activate the ping list for the Know-Nothings.

As I read the story of this individual I too felt that there was some missing part that was not being presented which would more clearly explain his actions. I would venture to say that perhaps “Lust” entered the scene and this temptation would more fully divulged the true rationale for the path chosen. Just a guess.