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Posted on 04/22/2025 9:38:26 PM PDT by Cronos
Nalin Haley, the son of former U.S. presidential candidate Nikki Haley, was received into the Catholic Church on Palm Sunday.
“As parents, Michael and I always prayed that our children would have a faith and relationship with God,” Nikki Haley posted on social media Sunday.
“Today we were so proud to support Nalin in his faith journey as he was confirmed into the Catholic Church, completed RCIA, and received his first holy Communion,” she said of her son.
Nikki Haley, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and South Carolina governor, was born and raised in the Sikh faith but converted to Christianity after marrying her husband, Michael Haley, in 1996.
In a 2012 interview, Haley said she and her husband “chose Christianity because of the way we wanted to live our life and raise our children.” She was reportedly baptized in a Methodist church but has attended Baptist churches as well
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May God bless him and his family.
CC
This is beautiful! God bless this young man and his future.
Amen.
Good for him!
What was he before?..................
Welcome to the Catholic Church, Nalin.
I don’t dare to speak for Him, but if this young man wants to use his Confirmation Patron Saints name now, instead of
“Nalin” I suspect he will be forgiven this Venial Sin of vanity.
Beautiful! In our parish this year, we had 30 adult baptisms at the Easter Vigil. Congratulations young man.
Maybe Methodist, as that is what his parents were.
We Protestants are heretics in the eyes of Catholics. (Said by niece’s fiance in not so many words) The niece at 27, just joined the Catholic Church in March, partly because she is marrying a Catholic, but not the only reason. She was Wesleyan, which is very conservative Protestant. Becoming Catholic seems to be a trend.
Sikh and ye shall find.
That is not an accurate characterization of the Catholic position. Formally, one can only be a heretic if one is a baptized Catholic who denies and publicly embraces (by promoting or teaching) one or more major doctrines of the Catholic Faith.
Protestants who were never members of the Catholic Faith through ignorance of the Faith or formed in an anti-Catholic environment through no fault of their own cannot be called formal heretics. At the most, from the Catholic view, they can be considered to be in a position of material heresy if they hold teachings that deny Catholic teaching, but one cannot call them a "heretic" on this account.
So, while (again from a Catholic perspective) Protestantism itself may be a heresy, individual Protestants aren't necessarily so. By virtue of their baptism and professed profession of faith in Jesus, they are considered by the Catholic Church to be born again believers and brothers and sisters in the Lord.
That’s one of the problems with Catholics. They think they have the power to name someone a saint, when the Bible clearly says all believers are saints.
As far as I’m concerned, the Catholics teach a false religion. They remove the second commandment. They spit in God’s face by calling a Minister Father. They play with their beads while doing repetitive prayer. They worship statues of Mary. They think there’s a place called Purgatory. And if you give them money, they can lessen the time. They say the only way to Heaven is by works, All that goes against the Bible.
With all due respect, I don't care what what willfully misinformed and bigoted people think. Have a blessed evening.
The Bible says just before the rapture and the tribulation there would be a falling away from the faith in Jesus Christ.
Some of the falling away is people believing the church orthe sacrament or good works will give you eternal life. Repeating of your sins and believe Jesus paid the full price for your sin debt. Your can’t work your way into heaven.
For God so loved the World he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believth in him shall have eternal life.
I would say the the text of Unam Sanctum by pope boniface totally disagrees with your posts position. In it the (ex cathedra statement according to the RC and Binding) declaration reads.
“ Therefore, if the Greeks or others should say that they are not confided to Peter and to his successors, they must confess not being the sheep of Christ, since Our Lord says in John ‘there is one sheepfold and one shepherd.’ We are informed by the texts of the gospels that in this Church and in its power are two swords; namely, the spiritual and the temporal.“
So therefore if one is not subject to the pope then one is not a member of the church. And furthermore the last line reads
“ Furthermore, we declare, we proclaim, we define that it is absolutely necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to the Roman Pontiff.”
So therefore again if one is subject to pontiff then not only are they not a member of the church, but there is no salvation for the person.
As a protestant and former catholic, I totally refute papal authority of the RC church and would totally disagree with the above mentioned papal bull.
So when you assert that the position of the Catholic Church view protestants as heretics is not accurate of the catholic position that how do you rectify that with the above papal bull? So if one denies the Catholic doctrine of being subject to the pope. They are not only, according to the Bull mentioned above, material heretics, but formal heretics as well. So please don’t try to downplay the true catholic position.
“With all due respect, I don’t care what what willfully misinformed and bigoted people think. Have a blessed evening.”
You’ve both judged and then blessed...would it be fair if i should judge all Catholics by your example? Of course it wouldn’t be fair! You do it well...gaslighting in the Roman Catholic way!
My impressions come from watching the leadership and the moral drift of the vatican “top men”. I think that there are many “saved Catholics” as conservative protestants define “saved. An old saying goes that a fish first stinks from the head. There are many, many righteous catholic lay people but the Catholic Leadership has isolated itself from their influence and input. They are not the Church right now that Peter would put his imprimater on.
Thank the living Jesus, that HE has his own notion as to what the
“true church’ is and who his true sheep are...and I know one thing...it isn’t what that “institution” is, based out of Rome.
GOD BLESS HIM!!!
You Protestants are not heretics......you are just missing out on COMPLETENESS by not having HOLY COMMUNION!!
Where does the BIBLE say that all believers are saints???
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