[NYer]

It is FR anti-Catholicism that has pushed me, like a sign from above, to the Church. I’m in RCIA and will join the Church on Easter.

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[Zionist Conspirator]

The Sheen quote is a bit hypocritical seeing as how evolutionism is not a false charge against the Catholic Church but is publicly acknowledged as a Catholic belief by practically every Catholic on this forum (yourself included), by every pope since Pius XII, and by Archbishop Sheen, the source of the quote.

The person who refuses to join the Catholic Church because it teaches evolution is not making a mistaken assumption but sincerely in disagreement with what is apparently a fundamental belief of the Catholic Church.

Why would Catholics even want such a person to join the Church, since it would cause only heartache to him/her personally and all his/her fellow Catholics who would have to deal with his/her cognitive dissonance?

I'm sure everyone in my parish--especially the pastor--was happy to see me go.

[wagglebee]

This post got me thinking.

There are quite a few anti-Catholic FReepers who CLAIM to have been raised Catholic, though many of their tales are so full of demonstrable falsehoods and and inconsistencies that it makes one wonder if they are even Christians in any sense of the word.

But goodwithagun's post made me wonder, does anyone know of even a single VERIFIABLE instance where a Catholic FReeper was somehow "converted" by the anti-Catholics that they left the Church? And by verifiable I mean someone who was a "known" Catholic FReeper that has now become an anti-Catholic.

[RichInOC]

Ah, yes, those well-known polymaths at Salon.