Has there ever been a lifelong anti-Catholic who converted?

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It should be open, unless there’s something different going on up in Canada?
 
***Originally Posted by SisterMoon
I’d say me. Vehemently anti-Catholic and totally into James White…I have many of his books.

I’m 39, so I don’t know if that constitutes “life-long” but I was anti-Catholic through and through. Praise God! ***

I was asked “what did it?”

As I look back, there are some things that were high points:
  1. I strongly believed in the Rapture, but every perfect theory kept falling apart. This eventually led me to realize pre-destination was not the ONLY way of looking at eschatology. I didn’t know there were saner views. Very liberating!
  2. A Bible teacher who started questioning the kind of stupidity of Protestant Communion. We would squint our eyes and try to “remember” Jesus on the cross. He said, “How could we do that? We weren’t there!” Obviously, the word remember was being used differently. I realized that Protestant Communion was silly. We did it because it was biblical, but we tried so hard to not make it mean what it plainly said.
  3. I was taught “once saved, always saved.” My “life verse” was John 10:28-29 which said, “My sheep hear my voice, no one else will they listen to, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.” The Lord led me to this verse when I was only 10 years old, and I couldn’t find my mother. I was scared she was “raptured.” I thought I was left behind (yes, I’m a child of the 70s). As I got older, though, I became more troubled by what Jesus said about enduring to the end throughout the Gospels. How I solved this was I just stopped reading the Gospels. The longer I lived, the less they made sense to me in the way I was being taught Christianity. I stuck with the OT and the Epistles.
  4. I was introduced to the Fathers and what they said about Baptism and the Eucharist. This led me to flirt with Anglicanism.
  5. Pondering the heirarchy of the Catholic Church (vs. Orthodoxy). On a practical level, you can’t get anything done without structure. Our most basic example of this is a family. Dad, Mom, kids.
  6. The first time I walked in my now parish, last year was, unbeknownst to me, the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul. Of course, the scripture was, “You are Peter…” I was smiling through my tears at God’s sense of humor.
That’s it in a nutshell.
 
SisterMoon said:
***Originally Posted by SisterMoon
I’d say me. Vehemently anti-Catholic and totally into James White…I have many of his books.

I’m 39, so I don’t know if that constitutes “life-long” but I was anti-Catholic through and through. Praise God! ***

I was asked “what did it?”

That’s it in a nutshell.
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We have very similar nutshells! 😃

God Bless and Welcome Home!
 
SisterMoon said:
***Originally Posted by SisterMoon
I’d say me. Vehemently anti-Catholic and totally into James White…I have many of his books.

I’m 39, so I don’t know if that constitutes “life-long” but I was anti-Catholic through and through. Praise God! ***

I was asked “what did it?”

As I look back, there are some things that were high points:
  1. I strongly believed in the Rapture, but every perfect theory kept falling apart. This eventually led me to realize pre-destination was not the ONLY way of looking at eschatology. I didn’t know there were saner views. Very liberating!
  2. A Bible teacher who started questioning the kind of stupidity of Protestant Communion. We would squint our eyes and try to “remember” Jesus on the cross. He said, “How could we do that? We weren’t there!” Obviously, the word remember was being used differently. I realized that Protestant Communion was silly. We did it because it was biblical, but we tried so hard to not make it mean what it plainly said.
  3. I was taught “once saved, always saved.” My “life verse” was John 10:28-29 which said, “My sheep hear my voice, no one else will they listen to, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.” The Lord led me to this verse when I was only 10 years old, and I couldn’t find my mother. I was scared she was “raptured.” I thought I was left behind (yes, I’m a child of the 70s). As I got older, though, I became more troubled by what Jesus said about enduring to the end throughout the Gospels. How I solved this was I just stopped reading the Gospels. The longer I lived, the less they made sense to me in the way I was being taught Christianity. I stuck with the OT and the Epistles.
  4. I was introduced to the Fathers and what they said about Baptism and the Eucharist. This led me to flirt with Anglicanism.
  5. Pondering the heirarchy of the Catholic Church (vs. Orthodoxy). On a practical level, you can’t get anything done without structure. Our most basic example of this is a family. Dad, Mom, kids.
  6. The first time I walked in my now parish, last year was, unbeknownst to me, the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul. Of course, the scripture was, “You are Peter…” I was smiling through my tears at God’s sense of humor.
That’s it in a nutshell.
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SisterMoon. Great life story. I hope everyone reads it, especially all of those non-Catholics on these boards, who cling to their faith because they don’t want to face up the decision, which in the last analysis, is a foregone conclusion.

God bless you.

peace
mgrfin
 
mgrfin said:
There is nothing going on in Canada. The hockey season hasn’t started yet.
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VERY true! Did you know with the exception of a few baseball fans the whole country hybernates during the summer?

OK, maybe not…
 
Leona Choy (goldenmorning.com) concerted to the Catholic Church at the tender young age of 79 years old.

While I would not describe her as being “anti-Catholic” per se, her missionary work as an Evangelical in China lead her to of course adopt a strong and abiding faith in God through an Evangelical mindset. When she appeared on The Journey Home on EWTN she readily admitted that her Evangelical sensibilities lead her to think of many Catholic ideas as rather odd, silly or heretical.
 
rlg94086 said:
:ehh: That can’t be right…must have been a conversion to Mormonism. 😃
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Yea, he was such an embarassment, the saints in heaven said, “ok, we’ll take him back, but only on his deathbed.”

It was conversion to Catholicism.
Saints preserves us!
mgrfin
 
Erich said:
Wow, after 5 more pages of posts on this thread followed mine, I was beginning to wonder whether anyone else besides me was going to catch the date discrepancy!
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Well, if Wilde only spent 20 years in Purgatory, I’m not going to pack a bag. 😉
 
To answer the original poster who asks if there has ever been a life-long Catholic who converted…maybe we should just check the long lists of saints who were converts…and even persecutors of the Christians…like St.Paul
 
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