Posted on 11/24/2005 8:37:40 PM PST by Petrosius
When I got serious about my relationship with God and did a serious search it led to the Catholic Church.
Very interesting article. I didn't know that most of those people listed were converts.
mine too...this was a church that for all its problems, I could see the hand of God actively working with. My perspective was also shaped because I had studied a LOT of late Roman and medieval history...and even knowing about some of the warts the church had, I could see it shining through the dross that men bring, to carry the message of Christ on.
From it s continuity from the beginning of the Church through to now, from its continual witness of signs and wonders (and for me the physical effects of "the miracle of the sun" at Fatima and the documented eucharistic miracles, the tilma of Our Lady of Guadaloupe, amongst other things all played their role in leading me across the Tiber.
But one of the things that caught my eye was the simple decade prayer on the Rosary:
O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of Hell. Lead all souls to heaven, especially those most in need of thy mercy.
I heard that said on ETWN one day, and thought, I want to belong to a church that can pray with that attitude, asking for mercy for everyone, especially those most in need of mercy is a calling I feel even today.
So in part because of that, here I am.
Brought into the Church along with Lawrence Kudlow, Bernard Nathanson and many others by the reviewer of the article, Father C. John McCloskey.
read later
later read, maybe pingify?
thanks a lot for that link to his articles.
Very insightful.
Orthodox Churches are benefitting with new converts for similar reasons.
It seems heresy in liberal fringe churches is leading folks back to the apostolic church.
Exactly.
Traditional Anglican ping, continued in memory of its founder Arlin Adams. BTTT!
**It seems heresy in liberal fringe churches is leading folks back to the apostolic church.**
Absolutely!
To the
One,
Holy,
Catholic and
Apostolic Church!!!!!!!!
No other church has these four marks of validity!
**"When heretics make headlines, they are also making Catholics, and very good Catholics at that. Some take a long while to reach Rome,............**
Converts are very often the BEST and most enthusiastic Catholics! (That is evident by several right here on FR!!)
Also, many who were baptized as Catholics, and then who strayed to Protestants groups are now coming back to the Catholic Church through the doors of many 'welcome back' programs now in existance.
Me too -- the road led right to the Catholic Church.
This needs a bump in light of the recent posting.
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