Tell you what, ansel12. I think you should investigate select FReepers and see where they were at at age 17, provided it was 30 more more years ago. What fun you could have, identifying nutcase liberals.
Have a nice--- or at least, a busy --- day.
You love the guy, well here he is, sharing some brilliant insight that you admire so much.
Why Im Not Returning To Catholicism
By ROD DREHER September 30, 2013
that the primary reason Im not a candidate for returning to Rome is because I simply do not believe Catholic doctrine any longer. If I had the essay to write over, I would have added these lines:
“”To be sure, the primary reason Im not for turning back to Rome is because I do not believe Catholic doctrine any longer. Even if I thought Francis was the second coming of John the Baptist, I couldnt rejoin a church in whose ecclesiological claims I have ceased to believe. The point here is simply that the aspect of Franciss papal ministry that the world sees as a feature is, for people like me, a bug.””