Mary Ann Collins

[Ovedya]

Protestant Ministers who became Catholic--------->

http://www.religionnews.com/press02/PR062502.html

Not exactly. Here are a few quotes from the article. My comments are also below:

As an 'average American Catholic boy,' Jeff Cavins got caught up in many of the usual pitfalls of being a late 20th-century young Catholic. And though he knew it would hurt his family, one day he rebelled against it all. He packed up and left -- his home, the Catholic Church and his former life as he knew it. Along a 12-year, circuitous search for truth and the meaning of life, Cavins became a Protestant, and then a Protestant pastor. Life was good for a number of years, but he couldn't find what he was ultimately seeking... real truth.

First, the article does not state the age of this person, and how long he was a Catholic before leaving the RCC. Second, it toook him 12 years of basically what I would call agnosticism before finally becoming a Protestant. It does not mention which Protestant denom he was a pastor of. Perhaps this was not a strong evangelical denom. It seems like this guy wasted many years of his life searching for truth without satisfaction from anything, so he simply returned to the faith he formerly knew - the one that made him feel comfortable.

Cavins' story is dramatic, and conversion stories like his are becoming a common occurrence. In the last decade, there has been a large influx of former Protestant laypeople -- even Protestant ministers -- who have become Catholic, according to Marcus Grodi, founder and president of the Coming Home Network (CHN), a ministry which assists Protestant clergy looking to enter the Catholic Church.

Note: "According to Marcus Grodi, founder and president of the Coming Home Network..." Seems like his opinion may be a little bit bias here. For one thing, this is free advertisement for him, so why would he not say that there has been a large influx? For another, there have been polls taken since the priest scandal broke that show that the RCC has seen a 30-40% decline in membership. So where are all these droves of people fleeing to the RCC from Protestantism? Seems funny that an article which claims that there has been such a large influx of converts would not give us any kind of figures.

In fact, the article is more or less really about former Catholics returning to the RCC, not about born Protestants converting to Catholicism.

[artsylady]

God man:

Agreed.

I hope you didn't have to RE-post that. I've been away and just skimmed through what I'd missed over the last week.

Yes, people are leaving the Catholic church in droves these day. How long can one hold onto such an outdated religion when it obviously has so many problems. I only hope they don't get totally dissolutioned and turn to athiesim because of what they've seen.

[Ovedya]

God man:

Agreed.

I hope you didn't have to RE-post that.  I've been away and just skimmed through what I'd missed over the last week.

Yes, people are leaving the Catholic church in droves these day. How long can one hold onto such an outdated religion when it obviously has so many problems.  I only hope they don't get totally dissolutioned and turn to athiesim because of what they've seen.

I believe that some have. When you are taught from a very young age that the RCC is the one true church, then you find out later that it isn't and leave, where do you go? Having been disillusioned, where do you turn? More importantly, where are the believers to catch these people when they fall?

[Tyler]

It has taken me many years of studying, wondering, asking, debating, praying, but now I want nothing to do with the RCC! It is a hard thing to come to a realization that what you have been taught all your life is false!

I have just started attending a Baptist Church, and what a wonderful church it is, the atmosphere ELATES me and makes me want to come back to worship!

There are many God fearing Catholic people out there, who are caught in a religion that the more you study it the less you understand!!

I have no quarrels with Catholic parishioners, but the Vatican...well that's another story!!! :x:

Only Christ Saves

[artsylady]

Tyler:

You went from rc to baptist, while Angeledei thinks she has the truth because she went from baptist to RC.

However, she REALLY went from Rc to baptist to RC. It's no big surprise that if you get dissolutioned in your current church, you'll return to the church of your childhood.

In the church of your childhood, there is no dissolutionment. Only child-like faith. (Although I don't know how one can ignore the Inquisition, fallable man-made laws that need to change with times, the widespread sexual abuse and many other problems, but oh well).

[Tyler]

I know what your saying artsylady!

The church itself was not the problem for me...doctrine, doctrine, doctrine is what it is all about(mostly)! A scripturally based Church where the literal interpretation of the Bible was taught, was what I was looking for! I would still attend a mass now and then if needed, but as for buying into the RCC ideology... it'll NEVER HAPPEN, not at this stage of the game!

Did Angeledei say why she left the Baptist church? Pressure from friends and family can have a dramatic effect on a person!

The Pope kissing the Koran, drove the final nail into the coffin for me...Was that an eye opener!!

Only Christ Saves

[artsylady]

The Pope kissing the Koran, drove the final nail into the coffin for me...Was that an eye opener!!

Please tell me this is not true.

[Ovedya]

http://www.garykah.org/html/popekoran.htm

[artsylady]

Wow. That is truly unbelievable. He actually kisses the book that calls our Lord and Saviour a liar.

ARE YOU GUYS GOING TO WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE NOW?

[Tyler]

Those who are earnestly seeking the truth will find it, those who seek glory from men will be fooled!! There are those that revere the RCC more than they care about finding out the truth... May God open their eyes!!

Only Christ Saves