Posted on 10/10/2015 1:31:00 PM PDT by NYer
Fox News’ highly reluctant Jesus follower has found a new church.
Kirsten Powers, USA Today columnist and contributor to Fox News, announced her decision on a live broadcast of “The Five.”
“Tomorrow night at 7 o’clock, I'm becoming Catholic!” she told viewers.
Powers, who grew up in the Episcopal Church, became an evangelical about 9 years ago, after attending Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York. Listening to Tim Keller preach opened the door for her to believe in God.
“I came to realize that even if Christianity wasn't the real thing, neither was atheism,” she wrote in a 2013 testimony for CT. “I began to read the Bible. My boyfriend would pray with me for God to reveal himself to me.”
For a while, Powers felt no connection to God. That changed during an overseas trip, where Powers said Jesus spoke to her. Eventually she joined a Bible study, an experience that changed her life.
“I'll never forget standing outside that apartment on the Upper East Side and saying to myself, ‘It’s true. It's completely true,’” she wrote it 2013. “The world looked entirely different, like a veil had been lifted off it. I had not an iota of doubt. I was filled with indescribable joy.”
Powers gave few details about her decision to become Catholic. She did thank Father Jonathan Morris, pastor of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church in the Bronx, on Twitter.
More than 100,000 adults a year join the Catholic Church, according to the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University.
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It changed at Vatican II.
Actually I take that back. I worded that wrong. The Catholic Faith doesn’t change, but what is being purported to be the Catholic Faith since Vatican II is not the same thing as the Catholic Faith. Vatican II served to change the faith. And little by little the Modernists are doing what they can to continue to change it.
Catholics have been slowly boiling frogs since 1960. Bergoglio has turned up the heat.
Poor Kristin may think she is converting to the Catholic faith, but she is converting to a Modernist version of it. I know. I once converted to it too.
And, like you, she may change with time. Where she lives, she can easily find a conservative parish and a Latin Mass. Right in midtown, actually.
I'm not catholic but every time he appears on Fox, I stop and listen.........I really like the guy.
That’s true. She may still convert to the Traditional Catholic Faith.
Father Morris seems to hold a lot of wisdom.
I think I saw Fr.Morris in the news recently. Somebody threw lighter fluid on a stranger and lit them on fire. Fr. Morris literally gave that man the shirt off his back to smother the flames. I may have some details wrong, but i know he’s been involved recently in a public rescue.
I understand.
I’m less and less likely to come here anymore.
Could you provide one example? I'm not sure I see what you are getting at unless her decision came about because Francis doesn't sit on a "golden throne".
In the last year or so, some people have been wildly appropriating while others have been equally wildly rebuking quotes from Pope Francis. “Who am I to judge?” is one of them that has come to mean very different things to different people, often clouded by ideological hopes and fears. However, listening to him on an almost daily basis is a much more interesting endeavor: His words bring light to places that have been impenetrable, so that truth — even about what the pope he is actually saying — might just be able to get at the business of healing.
Thank you, NYer. Well said.
It seems to me that the author is saying this not KP.
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