But WAIT!!!
Wouldn't you like some CEREAL first??
Posted on 10/08/2014 11:39:09 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
Why would intelligent, successful people give up their careers, alienate their friends, and cause havoc in their families...to become Catholic? Indeed, why would anyone become Catholic?
As an evangelist and author who recently threw my own life into some turmoil by deciding to enter the Catholic Church, I've faced this question a lot lately. That is one reason I decided to make this documentary; it's part of my attempt to try to explain to those closest to me why I would do such a crazy thing.
Convinced isn't just about me, though. The film is built around interviews with some of the most articulate and compelling Catholic converts in our culture today, including Scott Hahn, Francis Beckwith, Taylor Marshall, Holly Ordway, Abby Johnson, Jeff Cavins, Devin Rose, Matthew Leonard, Mark Regnerus, Jason Stellman, John Bergsma, Christian Smith, Kevin Vost, David Currie, Richard Cole, and Kenneth Howell. It also contains special appearances by experts in the field of conversion such as Patrick Madrid and Donald Asci.
Ultimately, this is a story about finding truth, beauty, and fulfillment in an unexpected place, and then sacrificing to grab on to it. I think it will entertain and inspire you, and perhaps even give you a fresh perspective on an old faith.
(Excerpt) Read more at indiegogo.com ...
The Catholic Church itself admits it incorporates paganism.
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there is no paganism in the liturgy
Just rippin' on the JW's...
Sounds like an “All roads lead to Heaven” kinda thing...
The following was cut and pasted from somewhere...
Why would intelligent, successful people give up their careers, alienate their friends, and cause havoc in their families...to become Catholic? Indeed, why would anyone become Catholic?
As an evangelist and author who recently threw my own life into some turmoil by deciding to enter the Catholic Church, I've faced this question a lot lately. That is one reason I decided to make this documentary; it's part of my attempt to try to explain to those closest to me why I would do such a crazy thing.
Convinced isn't just about me, though. The film is built around interviews with some of the most articulate and compelling Catholic converts in our culture today, including Scott Hahn, Francis Beckwith, Taylor Marshall, Holly Ordway, Abby Johnson, Jeff Cavins, Devin Rose, Matthew Leonard, Mark Regnerus, Jason Stellman, John Bergsma, Christian Smith, Kevin Vost, David Currie, Richard Cole, and Kenneth Howell. It also contains special appearances by experts in the field of conversion such as Patrick Madrid and Donald Asci.
Ultimately, this is a story about finding truth, beauty, and fulfillment in an unexpected place, and then sacrificing to grab on to it. I think it will entertain and inspire you, and perhaps even give you a fresh perspective on an old faith.
It's because I smell of elderberries.
So you don’t also trust in Mary to help you in obtaining salvation?
Ok. Someone corrected me about your being Catholic, my apologies for misunderstanding your position....
Don't you just HATE it when someone does that???
I'm mocking your chosen religion; and all of it's non-biblical extraeneous rules and regulations.
But WAIT!!!
Wouldn't you like some CEREAL first??
LC, she had a point. I saw the graphic and really was unsure of what statement you were making, other than attempted humor.
Apologize?
For a QUESTION?
Do you still beat your wife?
Same with this one. What are you trying to communicate?
It's quite understandable; as I sometimes have trouble understanding it.
Because of your statement about sounding like a Protestant in an earlier post. If you believe the Bible, then why differentiate?
The statement in context is a question.
Please don’t bother the Religion Moderator with misleading accusations.
And drop the “Please remove the post and issue the token warning that will be ignored.”
Thanks.
Did I differentiate? If so, how?
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"Enemies of the Church, they are, certainly, and to say that there are none worse, is not straying from the truth. It is not from the outside but from the inside of the Church that they are planning its ruin" (St. Pius X, Pascendi, September 8t",1907).
http://fsspx.com/Communicantes/Nov1999/EditorialNov99.htm
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3. Though they express astonishment themselves, no one can justly be surprised that We number such men among the enemies of the Church, if, leaving out of consideration the internal disposition of soul, of which God alone is the judge, he is acquainted with their tenets, their manner of speech, their conduct. Nor indeed will he err in accounting them the most pernicious of all the adversaries of the Church. For as We have said, they put their designs for her ruin into operation not from without but from within; hence, the danger is present almost in the very veins and heart of the Church, whose injury is the more certain, the more intimate is their knowledge of her. Moreover they lay the axe not to the branches and shoots, but to the very root, that is, to the faith and its deepest fires. And having struck at this root of immortality, they proceed to disseminate poison through the whole tree, so that there is no part of Catholic truth from which they hold their hand, none that they do not strive to corrupt. Further, none is more skilful, none more astute than they, in the employment of a thousand noxious arts; for they double the parts of rationalist and Catholic, and this so craftily that they easily lead the unwary into error; and since audacity is their chief characteristic, there is no conclusion of any kind from which they shrink or which they do not thrust forward with pertinacity and assurance..."
My stream of consciousness must seem like a coma at times to others.
I'm modifying the "GOT MILK" meme to resemble the Catholic position of "Unless you drink..." teaching.
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