Thank you. That’s exactly what I was looking for and I’ll be looking all of that up.
For three years I went on a quest to understand Christianity. I went to Baptist, Presbyterian, Catholic, Mormon, and other Christian churches, trying to find answers for my questions. There were many things that bothered me about Church doctrine and I was honestly looking for resolution.
What I got was a big helping of “That’s a good question. You just have to accept it and take it on faith.” One Catholic priest (WONDERFUL man) told me that some of the things I’d brought up had once bothered him as well.
For the most part, the priests and ministers were *wonderful*, honest, loving people who genuinely wanted to talk to me. I was offered some resolution on some of the issues, but there were things that I could never find satisfactory answers to.
I did get one telling me that the fact that I had doubts and questions meant that Satan was trying to keep me from G-d. “Don’t ask. Don’t doubt. It’s evil to do so.”
For the most part, the priests and ministers were *wonderful*, honest, loving people who genuinely wanted to talk to me. I was offered some resolution on some of the issues, but there were things that I could never find satisfactory answers to.My daughter is where you were at, Marie, and it is heartbreaking to me. She has selected, however, to go one further, and step away from faith entirely. The "prize" so to speak through the Catholic Church is the Eucharist (and of course all Sacraments in addition), but lo and behold, you can't receive Him 'until' you become a Catholic, so what that means to me anyway, is that it's almost impossible to have all your questions answered in the beginning or even the middle of your faith journey, because it is through the Eucharist, that the answers keep coming.... and coming..... It is through His Love, His Body, that we grow..... and learn..