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You are right: he was an Anglican, and that should explain everything.
I don’t know why Anglicans dont just throw in the towel and come home to Rome.
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I don’t know why Anglicans dont just throw in the towel and come home to Rome.
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Pani_Rose
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Here in Birmingham, Jim Pinto and Charles Garner were Episcopal Charismatic Priests who are now Catholic. They are both with Fr. Frank Pavone in Pro-Life. Also a few are in this article…
It started with Scott Hahn and it is still going strong. The number of prominent Protestant clergy and theologians coming to the Catholic Church has been nothing short of remarkable. Priests like Father Dwight Longenecker and Father Alvin Kimel are new to the Church and they bring a lot of enthusiasm, scholarship and wit and humor with them. Father Longenecker might be the only priest who is a graduate of the admittedly anti-Catholic institute of higher learning, Bob Jones University. Deacon Alex Jones, a former pastor in a prominent African-American Pentacostalist Church in Detroit left behind a vibrant, growing congregation. However, the pull of Catholicism’s 2,000 year-old history and her ability to weather many storms was too much for Deacon Jones. He now travels around the country telling his conversion story. In addition, there have been prominent theologians and university scholars like Dr Francis Beckwith, who very recently was the head of the Evangelical Theological Society. He came home to the Church in April. The aftershocks from his reversion to Catholicism (he was born into the faith but later left the Church for Evangelicalism during his teenage years in the heyday of the “Jesus Movement,”) still are being felt. He followed **Joshua Hochschild **who surprised many in the theological world when he recently converted to Catholicism.
catholicexchange.com/node/62662
It started with Scott Hahn and it is still going strong. The number of prominent Protestant clergy and theologians coming to the Catholic Church has been nothing short of remarkable. Priests like Father Dwight Longenecker and Father Alvin Kimel are new to the Church and they bring a lot of enthusiasm, scholarship and wit and humor with them. Father Longenecker might be the only priest who is a graduate of the admittedly anti-Catholic institute of higher learning, Bob Jones University. Deacon Alex Jones, a former pastor in a prominent African-American Pentacostalist Church in Detroit left behind a vibrant, growing congregation. However, the pull of Catholicism’s 2,000 year-old history and her ability to weather many storms was too much for Deacon Jones. He now travels around the country telling his conversion story. In addition, there have been prominent theologians and university scholars like Dr Francis Beckwith, who very recently was the head of the Evangelical Theological Society. He came home to the Church in April. The aftershocks from his reversion to Catholicism (he was born into the faith but later left the Church for Evangelicalism during his teenage years in the heyday of the “Jesus Movement,”) still are being felt. He followed **Joshua Hochschild **who surprised many in the theological world when he recently converted to Catholicism.
catholicexchange.com/node/62662
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Jeanette_L
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I know! I often heard Lewis quoted through the years and found some of his books among my grandfather’s library (he was very anti-Catholic AoG) and when I started reading Lewis myself, I thought, “WHAT???”
The difference in thinking was so overwhelming to me and so refreshing to my mind, the very fact that they considered Lewis to be one of them, just didn’t make sense to me at all. I mean, I knew his influence was going to forever change the way I thought about the Christian life and the Christian world entirely, I could see it hadn’t done the same for them, and I had to ask myself, “did any of these people who’ve been quoting him ever actually read him?”. If they did, they were very selective and threw away more than they kept.
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Ani_Ibi
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). This libertine English homosexual playwright repented and converted to Catholicism in 1900 on his deathbed.
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Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!
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rpp
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I converted in 2003 from atheism. I was a great opponent of Christianity in general and publicly fought against the Church.
While I would not describe myself as famous, I am a published author.
While I would not describe myself as famous, I am a published author.
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rpp
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All my friends abandoned me because of conversion. The only friends who remained were my co-workers.
Most painful of all, my wife divorced me because I became a Christian. When I went to Mass the first time, she moved all my stuff into the guest bedroom before I got back home. She said she “could not breathe the same air as a Christian, especially a Catholic.” We did not speak for a year. Later she said we could reconcile only if I renounced the Church and ceased attending Mass. The divorce was final last year and she left the country and now lives overseas.
Yeah, I guess you could say I paid a price for my conversion.
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savedsinner
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Well, I would have to say that all anti-Catholics who happen to make it to heaven will be converted to the fullness of the Catholic faith in heaven.
They might need to have their beliefs which are in error burned off in purgatory on the way their, but they all we be converted, sooner or later.
They might need to have their beliefs which are in error burned off in purgatory on the way their, but they all we be converted, sooner or later.
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Jeanette_L
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I am so sorry to hear of your suffering. And I’m sure you knew some of the price you were going to pay before you converted, it just doesn’t make the living it out any easier.
It seems that to covert to Catholicism brings out a hatred on all sides that is tangible, both in Christians and Atheists, all who are outside the Catholic Church. I think that on some level it’s because they know that to have made that kind of move, you have to be completely convinced of the truth of it, enough that you will more than likely never look back. It’s so much more than just some kind of emotional binge that sidetracks you for a time. And because of this being completely convinced, enough to risk everything precious to you, it is the most offensive and frightening of conversions to those who oppose Christianity or any Christian community outside of the familiar.
God bless friend, stay the course, the reward will far outweigh the cost in the end.
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Abira
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I don’t know if you’re English or American etc… but I can tell you straight that every single protestant I know has read some CS Lewis. My parents read the screwtape letters and I have read the problem of pain and starting to read mere christianity., I know the vicar from the next parish read the books I loaned his wife… the bookshop here shows his work to be their most popular sales even today…
it’s their loss if they don’t read them!
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Abira
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because of Mary’s assumption and her immaculate conception…
That gets a big reaction from people who feel great empathy with the Catholic church… then they hear that and it repells them…I kow that’s a strong word but you see some physically recoil.
of course there are some who believe it… but they don’t HAVE to believe it. They all love The Passion of the Christ but they simply overlook anything Marian in it. I believe this is the only main reason they remain seperated based of conversations I’ve had with five different Anglican Ministers.
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Jeanette_L
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Anglican theology is so different from American Evangelicalism, and knowing what little I even know of the Anglican faith, I know that it is so much more Catholic than Evangelical. That is why you find Lewis to be popular with Anglicans who are more conservative or orthodox in their faith. Not so much with the more liberal within the Anglican communion, as was even the case while he was living.
And Lewis himself was not so afraid of the Marian doctrines of the Catholic Church, he was very sympathetic; and also, surprisingly to the praying for the souls of the departed. His belief in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, although not completely the same as the Catholic understanding, still is something extremely foreign to the Evangelical community. These and so many more are all completely blood curdeling to the Evangelical mindset, and are obviously some of the things they choose to overlook about Lewis’s theology.
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Abira
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American Evangelicals are the stuff of British nightmares lol
It is so far removed from the Christianity overe here. I know several people who have watched tv evangelicals to laugh at them as they’re so far out and so angry at everyone… although there are some baptist preachers who annoy everyone in the street…and i’m sure (I hope) not typical baptists who remind everyone of the hellfire and brimstone suits on American TV…It’s common to mock someone for being judgmental by immitating their accent and intonations.Luckily England’s not big enough to get lost in like they have…fingers crossed
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Jeanette_L
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There are such huge differences even among the Evangelical denominations and non-denominations, it’s not accurate to say that all are as you see on the American Christian television channels. A great many are as you see there, but there are many who are not as outlandish and aggressive, many who just genuinely love Christ and try to live their lives accordingly. A lot of Evangelicals are embarrassed by the stereotypes they are labeled with because of the tv evangelists.American Evangelicals are the stuff of British nightmares lol
Luckily England’s not big enough to get lost in like they have…fingers crossed
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