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50 Days of Easter 2008 Celebration ping, dedicated to converts to the Catholic faith. If you want to be on the list but are not on it already, or if you are on it but do not want to be, let me know either publicly or privately.

Happy Easter. Christ is risen!

Alex.

Previously posted conversion stories:

Anti-Catholicism, Hypocrisy and Double Standards
Why I Returned to the Catholic Church. Part I: Darkness
Why I Returned to the Catholic Church. Part II: Doubts
Why I Returned to the Catholic Church. Part III: Tradition and Church
Why I Returned to the Catholic Church. Part IV: Crucifix and Altar
Why I Returned to the Catholic Church. Part V: The Catholics and the Pope
Why I Returned to the Catholic Church. Part VI: The Biblical Reality
His Open Arms Welcomed Me
Catholic Conversion Stories & Resources
My Personal Conversion Story
My (Imminent) Reception into the Roman Catholic Church
Catholics Come Home
My Journey of Faith
LOGIC AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF PROTESTANTISM
"What is Truth?" An Examination of Sola Scriptura
"Have you not read?" The Authority behind Biblical Interpretation
The Crisis of Authority in the Reformation
Our Journey Home
Our Lady’s Gentle Call to Peace
A story of conversion at the Lamb of God Shrine
Who is Mary of Nazareth?
Mary and the Problem of Christian Unity

Also see:
Sheep That Go Astray

(nor what the Church believes -- in fact, one of the many things that resonated as true about Catholic teaching is the belief that non-Catholics and non-Christians could also go to heaven).

Does this mean you are gonna stop praying for the lost souls who do not want to pray to Mary for intercession?

“resonated as true about Catholic teaching is the belief that non-Catholics and non-Christians could also go to heaven”: I am sorry but, I have no problem with the non-Catholic Christian part going to heaven, but if you believe non-Christians are going to heaven you are mistaken.

It may not be “Pc”, but anyone that rejects the the truth that Jesus is “the truth, the life and the way, no one comes to The Father, but by Me (Jesus)”, then they will not be forgiven by Christ on the day of Judgement!

Um...yeah, my middle name is Gerard. My Mother prayed to St. Gerard for a first born son...it worked so it must be effective huh? Catholicism is sad in that it propagates the notion that prayers offered up to anyone or thing but the Triune God (Father, Son, Holy Spirit). Prayers offered to so called “saints”, Mary or anything else are a diversion from the one true God. Some of my cousins were just “confirmed”...I want to ask them, “confirmed to what?” Unfortunately (yeah, again) this was not their choice, but a choice their parents made, thus not a true conversion at all. Just a good show, and another reason for food and a family get together. No Christ, no salvation; its just stuff that makes me feel better about myself.

Around this time someone told me that one of the Christian denominations claimed that God did leave us this "answer key" I'd been yearning for. I found out that the Catholic Church claimed to be a sort of divinely-guided Supreme Court, that God guided this Church to be inerrant in its official proclamations about what is right and wrong, how to interpret the Bible, how to know Jesus Christ, and all other questions of God and what he wants us to do. I heard that it claims that God speaks to us through sacred Scripture and through the sacred Tradition of his living Church.

That got my attention.

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Heh. :)