[Zionist Conspirator]

Where a Protestant denomination splits over doctrine, the Catholic Church expects her members to know the doctrine, struggle to embrace it, repent of the failures, and persevere, but it would never turn a Catholic away.

That may be true, but Catholics can sure make a "redneck" convert feel like an orphan and an inferior because of differences in the cultures. Methinks that had I been a member of a more "politically correct" group my experience would have been very different.

[annalex]

I am very sorry. Finding an orthodox Catholic parish is an art form. This are what to look for:

- centrally located tabernacle and crucifix
- kneelers
- no drums
- statues of the Blessed Virgin and the patron saint
- Extraordinary Ministers of the Holy Communion are male, and not more than necessary to serve Communion
- no altar girls
- few casually clad parishioners, none immodestly dressed.
- homily addressing the scripture readings or the feast day, not philosophical twaddle or psychobabble.

These are visible signs of course; the content may still disappoint.

[Wallace T.]

Most converts from Protestant ranks into the Catholic Church tend to be Episcopalians or Lutherans, most of the latter from the ELCA. A Midwestern Lutheran of German or Scandinavian ancestry or a Northeastern Episcopalian of British ancestry lack the degree of cultural differences with white Catholics, who are centered in the Northeast and Upper Midwest than a Southerner, especially from an evangelical or fundamentalist background, has. Becoming Catholic is less of a problem for these converts since Lutheran and Episcopalian theology retain much of medieval Catholicism, especially in the liturgy and sacraments, that the Calvinists and especially the Anabaptists rejected. If getting away from liberal theology is more important than sola gratia, transubstantiation, or Papal infallibility, these converts will find a more comfortable home in Rome.

Outside of South Louisiana, far South Texas, seaport towns like Savannah and Mobile, and some parts of the Texas Hill Country, there are few Southern Catholics whose families have lived in the South for more than two generations. If you listen to the conversations in a parking lot outside a Catholic church in most Southern cities, you are far more likely to hear the accents of Chicago or Pittsburgh than native Southern speech. That will not be the case in the parking lot of a Southern Baptist or AG church, even in heavily Yankeefied areas like the northern suburbs of Atlanta or Dallas.