[NYer]

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H. W. Crocker III is the author most recently of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War (Regnery). This article originally appeared in the November 2002 issue of Crisis Magazine.

[NYer]

[notaliberal]

The greatest gift my parents gave me was my Catholic faith!

[Jubal Madison]

Thanks Nyer, great article. I’m protestant, but I see how the Catholic church gets slammed unfairly quite a bit, sometimes by protestants. I know firsthand some of the good and wonderful work the Catholic church does, you never hear about any of that. If there were more people like the devout catholics I know, the world would be a much better place. Just some thoughts - God Bless You and Yours - JM

[steve86]

However, the Latin-Rite Church largely turned its back on its very best asset when it replaced the Tridentine Mass with a protestant-pleasing vernacular alternative.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Thanks for this post!

Yeah when my wife and I convert almost 12 years ago now, it wasn’t for all the support I got.

My family disowned me, my conservative friends thought I was crazy. My liberal friends thought I was crazier.

But after I arrived at the conclusion that Jesus actually founded a Church to guide us, there was no other organization that fit the bill.

[LearnsFromMistakes]

With its divine foundation, sanction, and mission, nothing could be more glorious than the Catholic Church.

Protestant here. I enjoy reading many of these threads. But this one starts out on the way wrong foot. I would hope that God, His Son, His Spirit, and His plan would be considered somewhat higher on the 'glorious' scale. Unless I was to 'assume' all of these...

[annalex]

The true Catholic is a natural Tory anarchist

Yes!

God bless this man. What a great article.

[GUNGAGALUNGA]

I was always told by my Baptist bretheren that Catholics aren’t going to heaven. Of course Baptists think that only Baptists can go to heaven.

[RedRedRose]

I knew that the Catholic faith was the right one. I felt the presence of God there.

[informavoracious]

Is this a Catholic Caucus thread? The haters are posting...

[big'ol_freeper]

Bigotry needs its black legends to sustain itself. On this thread you will undoubtedly see the split tongue of Satan flicking his hatred as those who hate Christ’s Church unwittingly do the deceiver’s will.

[TASMANIANRED]

Many thanks.

Great article but I’m betting it’s caused a few cases of spontaneous combustion.

[Iscool]

Long article...Hardly any mention of Jesus, or Christians...Anyone surprised???

[Melian]

I especially love numbers 5-1.

I love being Catholic and have long felt that God coded us genetically to thirst for the Church. The Sacraments are there for our spiritual AND psychological health.

There’s nothing like being a Catholic. You feel more whole. It just satisfies on every level: mental, spiritual, emotional, physical. I think God set it up that way so that we would recognize it when we encountered it.

No other religion encompasses our humanity and our human greatness as well: our history, our art, our deeply intellectual faith are all the culmination of God’s likeness in man. No other religion is as in touch with it as Catholicism.

I get sappy about it, but nothing in my life has brought me the joy and completion that being a Catholic has. I thank God every day that I am Catholic.

[GOPJ]

bump to the top

[Zionist Conspirator]

I can't believe "not having to run into any of those inbred Biblical literalists" as reason #1. True, there are all those illiterate Guatemalan and Honduran peasants . . . but they all accept evolution and historical criticism . . . right?

PS: So this article was written by a rebel hound, eh? I'll bet he blames the Confederacy's loss in the Civil War on literalist interpretation of the first eleven chapters of Genesis!