How secure are you in your Catholicness/Protestantness?

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I probably would have made the question “How secure are you in your Catholicness [resp. Orthodoxness, Anglicanness, Lutheranness, Presbyterianness, etc]?” except that didn’t sound to me like a good thread title.

(Note: I wouldn’t read *too *much meaning into the results of this poll, as this is pretty subjective.)
 
I’m not secure in my Protestantism, I’d much rather become Catholic.
 
Peter_J said:
I probably would have made the question “How secure are you in your Catholicness [resp. Orthodoxness, Anglicanness, Lutheranness, Presbyterianness, etc]?” except that didn’t sound to me like a good thread title.

(Note: I wouldn’t read *too *much meaning into the results of this poll, as this is pretty subjective.)
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I am very secure in my [c]atholic Christian faith. That security is by grace.

Jon
 
To leave Catholicism (our Lord in the Holy Eucharist) I would have to deny Christ. I am not willing to do that.
 
Thanks to all respondents (including future ones). 🙂 I’m very interested to see how this will go – notwithstanding the subjectivity of the question – because one of the main things I’ve observed, over the years that I’ve been participating in Internet discussion forums, is Catholics’ [resp. Protestants’] insecurity about their Catholicness [resp. Protestantness]. (If you’ll accept those as real words. :cool:)
 
Peter_J said:
I probably would have made the question “How secure are you in your Catholicness [resp. Orthodoxness, Anglicanness, Lutheranness, Presbyterianness, etc]?” except that didn’t sound to me like a good thread title.

(Note: I wouldn’t read *too *much meaning into the results of this poll, as this is pretty subjective.)
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Very, without a doubt! IOW, I sleep very well at night!
 
  1. I converted from Anglicanism just over a year ago. I sometimes feel I’m too Anglican to be a good Catholic, and too Catholic to go back to the CofE.All the business with Amortis Latietia amoungst other things has really been a challenge to my faith and has made me severely question things like papal infallibility.
 
I think it’s healthy to have some doubts from time to time, someone that says they are 100% could be seen as mindlessly following Catholicism because they have known nothing else.

From my circles the ones who say they have no doubts and are 100% are the Catholics since childhood. From my experience, I find that people who have found Catholicism later in life, and have a maybe wrestled with some aspects as they became catholic - have doubts from time to time, as is human to do so.

I’m a happy/content 4/5 Catholic
 
peter26 said:
  1. I converted from Anglicanism just over a year ago. I sometimes feel I’m too Anglican to be a good Catholic, and too Catholic to go back to the CofE.All the business with Amortis Latietia amoungst other things has really been a challenge to my faith and has made me severely question things like papal infallibility.
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Please try to avoid being influenced by the media. They are of this world and by nature, oppose the faith. As to AL, that is a matter for the Church hierarchy and not for the laity to gossip or murmur about. If you believe in the devil (the ‘accuser’), you know that he incites division, distraction, disappointment, despair and all negative “D” things.

blog.adw.org/2013/07/four-common-tactics-of-the-devil/
 
Mi3hael said:
I think it’s healthy to have some doubts from time to time, someone that says they are 100% could be seen as mindlessly following Catholicism because they have known nothing else.

From my circles the ones who say they have no doubts and are 100% are the Catholics since childhood. From my experience, I find that people who have found Catholicism later in life, and have a maybe wrestled with some aspects as they became catholic - have doubts from time to time, as is human to do so.

I’m a happy/content 4/5 Catholic
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I disagree with this point. While there is much uncertainty in the world, for me none of it has to do with the truth of the Catholic Church. I am a convert and have never mindlessly followed anything since becoming an adult more than 30 years ago. In my conversion process I had some doubts but I was able to resolve them all prior to my confirmation.
 
Interesting commentary. Over the course of my life, I’ve kinda gone from a mostly mindless 5 to a reasonably mindful 5…

Blessings,
Stephie
 
MichaelP3 said:
Very, without a doubt! IOW, I sleep very well at night!
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Cool. 🙂

But, if I may be quite frank, I believe – though I confess this is based merely on my experience – that Protestant posters are generally just as defensive and insecure about their Protestant identity as Catholic posters are about their Catholic identity.
 
Mi3hael said:
From my experience, I find that people who have found Catholicism later in life, and have a maybe wrestled with some aspects as they became catholic - have doubts from time to time, as is human to do so.
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I agree that such wrestling is human, and very good … but not if it becomes obsessive.
 
Peter_J said:
Most secure. Least secure would be a one.
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Yikes!

I did it the wrong way round - I assumed, for some reason, that 1 would be “most secure” in my Catholicism not least :eek:

Just for the record -I am very secure in my Catholicness. 😃
 
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