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Congratulations! You are a great asset to the faith. I have often thought of taking such courses. Please pray for me that I have the time and courage to pursue them.Fix,
Why, thank you.
While I was a lapsed Catholic, I went to Gonzaga University to study engineering. The Jesuits there forced me to take some philosophy and religion. Good thing too, cuz I caught a theology bug and have been studying theology ever since (on my own, not formally). Ever since then, I’ve continued to search, sometime in the most aweful places, for the voice of God, most often ignoring it when I stumbled across it. I was very much a dissenting Catholic, if I could be called a Catholic at all. I remember reading a lot of books by Fr. Charles Curran and being sucked into his argument.
However, I kept searching, and God kept sending me his holy promptings until I returned to the Catholic Church. Now, since I used to be a “dissenting” Catholic, I understand the arguments they use to justify their dissent. Yet, I now see them as terribly flawed, where before they were my rationalization for sinful behavior. http://forums.catholic-questions.org/images/icons/icon9.gif
All of my Catholic studies since Gonzaga (15 years ago http://forums.catholic-questions.org/images/icons/icon11.gif ) has been self-study. However, my wife and I started a Master’s of Religious Studies program together last year, from Catholic Distance University ([www.cdu.edu](http://www.cdu.edu/)/ ). It’s outstanding, so if you can find the opportunity (and resources) to take some correspondence classes from them, I recommend it.
