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I don’t know AB.

When I got that call from Pastor Munro and he asked me to come in....I was very flattered. I’d went to the Penna. thing with the Baptists.

I think they see me as a waffling Catholic and perhaps I am.

So I sat with Pastor Munro and read the bible as he tells me the Catholics do it all wrong.

Well you got to smile. He sends me home with a bunch of stuff and even homework and I read it all.

Pastor Munro also told me that God did NOT tell the Catholics to have a single male head of the church, that is all the Catholics’ doing. He also told me the very first Pope-Peter, was married and had kids.

I did not know that. Not that it matters I suppose.

I was waffling about it all, surprised that I was sitting in the Baptist minister’s office reading scripture, telling about my daughter. HE has a daughter and on some level that made me comfortable.

But I called him back and made an appointment next Weds to sit and read the scriptures again. I read all my “homework” and still not sure what’s going on in my head.

Spoke to BFF Diane Feinstein and she’s kind of wanting to check it out.

Well I just don’t know but perhaps God will guide me?

You need to enroll in RCIA—Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, every Catholic parish should have one. They’re NOT just for anyone thinking about coming into the Catholic Church, but for EVERYONE, including and especially for Catholics who haven’t gone to any Catholic education classes since childhood.

In any case, there are succinct and full explanations for each one of that Baptist pastor’s questions about Catholicism, and it is only fair that you get them answered/rebutted by someone who knows the correct answer.

Yes, Peter WAS married, but he already had a wife and kids when he and his brother were called by Jesus (”Come, let Me make you fishers of men”).

Saint Paul does indeed urge males who are deeply involved in the Mission of Christ to remain celibate. It is not a REQUIREMENT, but it is something the Catholic Church asks its ordained to do—even though there ACTUALLY some married priests, from the Anglican community, now in the Catholic Church. SO—celibacy is not mandatory, but traditional.

Anyway, Saint Paul’s words are right there in the Bible. It seems rather devious to me that a Baptist pastor would not mention THAT, as it is Scripture, which they’re all supposed to know by heart...

In any case, don’t let me be the one to answer any questions you have, but give YOUR Church at least the opportunity to do so. There is a lot, and I mean A LOT, of good information and answers out there since we were kids in Catechism.

<>iWell I just don’t know but perhaps God will guide me?

You are not the only one having second thoughts on the Catholic church.

My take is sports related - I was born / Baptized a Catholic. So Catholic is my home team by default. When the home team plays well I cheer - as in the Polish Pope. When the home team has idiot managers (homo priests abusing alter boys) / owners I do not attend the games or give money. All my kids were baptized Catholic, and I hope to be buried with a Catholic mass. All else is up for some level of negotiation