[cloudmountain]

Most of the “converts” are probably not converting, but were nominal Catholics. Just as Luther and Calvin were the wake up call resulting in the Counter-revolution, the evangelization of Hispanics (and Africans and Koreans) may be the wake up call to the Catholic Church today. As a Lutheran, I welcome it.

Yes, it's nice and welcoming. And you already know that sooner or later there will be "fallen Lutherans-former Catholics."

Wake up calls for sure.
And all those now-Catholic Tennessee folks will eventually have their own "fallen Catholics."

God will judge us all, each according to His Divine Will. I welcome ALL Christians to the fold of Jesus.

[chajin]

I should have been more specific (that’s what happens when I’m typing on my mobile while watching my daughter get her hair cut :> ): when I said “I welcome it,” the “it” included both the Hispanics becoming evangelicals, and the Catholic Church getting a wake up call.

If it hadn’t been for Luther, the Catholic Church would not have “counter-reformed,” and, among many other things, Francis Xavier wouldn’t have gone to India, China, and Japan, and El Adelantado would not have been so motivated to Catholic-ize the Philippines—which, if memory serves me, was only the second land to be “converted back” from the Muslims, the first being Spain. So as Paul put it in Philippians, however the gospel is preached, and whoever is preaching the gospel, I rejoice, so long as it is the gospel.