Oh dear. Magdi Allam decides to.....

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The Catholic Answers blog had a post about this. So sad when people leave for emotional reasons:( Makes me remember not to take my faith for granted, we have to constantly be nourishing it. I could easily fall away just like him:eek:
 
It seems that he might have converted out of wrong reasons, not because of conviction but because of rebellion against Islam.
 
I mean he didnt convert because of being convinced but rather because of political reasons.

It might also be a P.R. trick, this way he makes far greater headlines than merely coming out and criticize the Church for being weak towards Islam, it will draw peoples attention towards his cause much more than merely criticizing.
 
I suspect that he never read the Catechism. 🤷
841 The Church’s relationship with the Muslims. "The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Muslims; these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind’s judge on the last day."330
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842 The Church’s bond with non-Christian religions is in the first place the common origin and end of the human race:
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All nations form but one community. This is so because all stem from the one stock which God created to people the entire earth, and also because all share a common destiny, namely God. His providence, evident goodness, and saving designs extend to all against the day when the elect are gathered together in the holy city. . .331
843 The Catholic Church recognizes in other religions that search, among shadows and images, for the God who is unknown yet near since he gives life and breath and all things and wants all men to be saved. Thus, the Church considers all goodness and truth found in these religions as "a preparation for the Gospel and given by him who enlightens all men that they may at length have life."332
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844 In their religious behavior, however, men also display the limits and errors that disfigure the image of God in them:
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Very often, deceived by the Evil One, men have become vain in their reasonings, and have exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and served the creature rather than the Creator. Or else, living and dying in this world without God, they are exposed to ultimate despair.333
845 To reunite all his children, scattered and led astray by sin, the Father willed to call the whole of humanity together into his Son’s Church. The Church is the place where humanity must rediscover its unity and salvation. The Church is “the world reconciled.” She is that bark which “in the full sail of the Lord’s cross, by the breath of the Holy Spirit, navigates safely in this world.” According to another image dear to the Church Fathers, she is prefigured by Noah’s ark, which alone saves from the flood.334
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Porknpie said:
I suspect that he never read the Catechism. 🤷
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Quite right I think.

Also if it is ok for me to say so that I would have thought he decided to be Catholic because it encapsulates all that is right and True, as opposed to Islam which has some Truths but faulty understanding of God.

Prayers for him at the same time perhaps he may have thought of Orthodoxy? Remains to be seen his next course of action.

MJ
 
Deacon Kandra “This also raises questions about what sort of formation/discernment was involved in his conversion. Did he really understand what he was getting into – and did those guiding his conversion ask all the right questions?”🤷

" convinced him to abandon his conversion to Christianity."

and

Leaving because it is too “weak with Islam.”

And going where? :confused:
 
He’s leaving the Church because it is too “weak with Islam,” the “euphoria over Pope Francis,” and the rapid way Pope Benedict was set aside was “the straw that broke the camel’s back”.

He definitely won’t be the last to leave Catholicism/Christianity based on what Christians do rather than full devotion to Christian God. Let’s continue to keep him in prayers.
 
Is this true? Did he ever reflect on Christ Crucified and the walk of the Cross??

Again, I must refer to St. Francis who encountered the Muslims.

The Church is seeing the rise of Islam in Europe as well as the need to recatechize its faithful.
 
He may have had a poor understanding of both faiths. It illustrates the folly in holding up a person’s “conversion” as some sort trophy.

As someone else wrote, “This story confirms a suspicion I’ve held for a long while: theological objections are often personal objections in disguise.”
 
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