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I am most pleased to have another FReeper in my former-fundamentalist shoes. Frankly, I believe we are a distinct but emergent Cathlic subculture, growing as more and more biblically devoted Christians recognize the futility of professing to live by a "constitution" while rejecting the need for a "supreme court."

So that explains it! You're a convert!

I'm afraid most of your co-religionists will attribute your continued beliefs about the Bible to cultural "jet lag." Some may even assume you "aren't really Catholic." Has anyone told you to leave the Church yet?

I don't know why you consider yourself a "former" fundamentalist if you still accept total Biblical inerrancy. Your rejection of sola scriptura makes you a former Protestant, not a former fundamentalist--unless you suddenly become a liberal or something.

Has anyone told you to leave the Church yet?

Absolutely not. In fact, I asked my pastor "if there was a place for someone like me in the Catholic Church."

His response was not just "yes," but "of course!"

I don't know why you consider yourself a "former" fundamentalist if you still accept total Biblical inerrancy.

I suppose it's just a difference of definitions.

Personally, I don't see much wiggle in the catechism:

107 The inspired books teach the truth. "Since therefore all that the inspired authors or sacred writers affirm should be regarded as affirmed by the Holy Spirit, we must acknowledge that the books of Scripture firmly, faithfully, and without error teach that truth which God, for the sake of our salvation, wished to see confided to the Sacred Scriptures."