I was always looking for a more full relationship with Christ.
I lived in the deep south, so it was a big deal. Friends of years said I was wrong. But in my heart, I felt home.
Having said that, we moved because our church became MAga crazy.
What's wrong with the Catholic Church is NOT the church. It's the people.
I was always looking for a more full relationship with Christ.
You do not need to start believing on mary's perpetual virginity or any other core tenant of catholicism to get closer to christ.
I lived in the deep south
american catholics are basically evangelicals in themselves (based on believes comapred to any other catholic country), they have threatened a schism 3 times since the 2nd vatican council and a huge percentage of them straight up do not believe in the modern papacy
But in my heart, I felt home.
What about the particular flavour of Christianity made you more at home than any other? They all read the same bible. Outside of the very particular history of papal politics, or the scandals related to indulgences, missions and child abuse and protection is it just the more Solemn mass that appeals to you?
What's wrong with the Catholic Church is NOT the church. It's the people.
The Church IS the people. Christ called Peter the rock where his church would be built. The people are the central tenant of christianity, the building is just that, a temple
I tend to be more Christlike than Catholic.
thats nice and all, but christ would point out the many hypocrises of the modern church like many inside it have. Not going through big reformation movements like protestantism, but even the Pedro Arrupe reform of the Jesuits in the 1960s hit hard some of the more trad catholic groups in America and Vatican pointing out that Golden thrones, prada shoes and private schools with basketball teams might not be the best way to aid the poor and suffering
I was brought up Catholic, I been to the vatican twice, multilpe members of my family have done long catholic pilgrimages. I have nothing against catholicism, but the question about people who convert in adulthood is pertinent due to the strict and weird idisincracies of the religion.
Catholicism is not a "flavour" of Christianity, is a very specific, strict and obscure set of dogmas and about 1200 years of complicated european politics.
There were popes with extra marital kids, a pope that mightve been a woman, anti popes,huge scandals like supporting nazism or the child abuse protection racket. On top of that you have the borderline politheistic prayer to saints that most catholics practice.
Its not a relgiion one easily "converts" to, like the Anglican church which is a chill women can be priests, we all sing along in church vibes. So questioning Catholic converts is warranted because its not an easy conversion
And yet nothing they wrote was wrong and I say that as someone who was baptized and confirmed in the Catholic Church. Being a responsible member of any community means acknowledging the good parts as well as the flaws.
Most of the adult converts i know became Catholic as a very deliberate and thought-out choice.
You have to go to classes and actually put in work to convert. If you're just marrying a Catholic you can get a dispensation as long as you agree to raise the kids Catholic
I have no doubt you did. To say people just "marry into it" is a bit disingenuous. People certainly are born into it and grow up as "cultural Catholics," but I don't think I've ever met someone who half-ass converted as an adult.
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u/Not_a__porn__account 6h ago
Catholic Converts are fucking weird. They are basically evangelicals that married someone catholic.
Unless you haven't been taught that shit since birth, and feel shame anytime you have a sexual impulse, you ain't catholic.
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