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As a King James Bible reader, too – even though I’d long been reading it “as literature” rather than as Scripture; and similarly the Book of Common Prayer – I was “conditioned” by the poetry in them.

I know this marks me out as an “aesthete.” But in my experience, whether or not it is acknowledged, the beauty of language, music, gesture, architecture, and art play an important, often-crucial role in drawing people to the Church.

That's the difference between being a Catholic and a Christian...Language, music, gesture, architecture, art and pomp and the view of scripture as nothing more than literature makes one a Catholic...

The 'literature' of the scriptures warns against all these things...

Those who strive for a personal relationship with the author of that 'literature' are the real Christians...And thank God, there are far more people who have found or are searching for that relationship who have left and are leaving the Catholic Religon that are moving to it...

One would do well to notice that there is no mention of 'Jesus' in this testimony of a 'come home Catholic'...Should tell everyone everything they need to know about these 'come home' stories...