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To: CatholicTim
"My experience has been that a lot of Catholics don’t know what they have and a lot of Protestants don’t know what they are missing."

Great testimony. You would appreciate how John Henry Newman a major figure in English literature and founder of England's Oxford movement put it after joining the Catholic Church.

"converts come to the Catholic Church not so much to lose what they have, but to gain what they have not, by means of what they have, more may be given to them..."

He is remembered for a poem best recalled by its opening lines Lead Kindly Light which perhaps was his motto in his journey from Anglican minister to Catholic priest halfway through is life of some 90 years. He later became a Cardinal. "Lead thou me on. Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see -The distant scene—one step enough for me."

16 posted on 07/29/2007 2:34:07 PM PDT by ex-snook ("But above all things, truth beareth away the victory.")
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To: ex-snook

I agree. All Protestants should read Newman especially Apologia and The Development of Christian Doctrine.

Thanks for your kind words.


40 posted on 07/29/2007 6:56:31 PM PDT by CatholicTim
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