Protestants joining Catholic Church and Lay Catholic joining Protestant Churches

[estesbob]

Sure he would if the issue didn’t matter to him anymore. Ex-anythings can’t be trusted about their previous traditions (as a rule) because they have undergone a paradigm shift.

He resisted the idea for a long time after he had abandoned the principle of priestly celibacy.

And of course you are not going to say that they had a genuine spiritual hunger that was not satisfied in Catholicism–easier to resort to cheap cynicism and chercher la femme.

Edwin

Neither one of us knows, do we,? However we do know they broke a solemn vow made before God. That would tend to make their motives suspect , IMO.

Luther , BTW, not only violated his vow but helped a woman do the same. Perhaps he “resisted” it so long because he was waiting to find a Nun who would marry him.

 

[Loren_1of6]

Ex-anythings can’t be trusted about their previous traditions (as a rule) because they have undergone a paradigm shift.
Edwin

And yet we are more than ready to trust ex-Mormons who tell us the horrors of their former religious affiliation. :ehh:

 

[Atreyu]

Contarini:

But until you have explored it you have no right to speculate.

Point conceded.

Welcome back, by the way!

 

[Contarini]

And yet we are more than ready to trust ex-Mormons who tell us the horrors of their former religious affiliation. :ehh:

Who are “we”? I’m certainly not ready to do any such thing. I don’t trust ex-Mormons any more than ex-anything else.

And I should clarify–by “don’t trust” I don’t mean that such people are liars. I simply mean that they’re rarely capable of describing their previous tradition in terms that continued adherents of that tradition find acceptable.

It’s all in Kuhn, all in Kuhn. . . .

Edwin

 

[Lee44]

In my RCIA class the majority of Protestants converting to Catholicism were due to marriage.

Lee44

 

[jmcrae]

In my RCIA class the majority of Protestants converting to Catholicism were due to marriage.

Lee44

I think that’s probably typical of most RCIAs.

 

[udoc89]

Interesting. This has been my experience as well. Most Catholics I know who converted to evangelical churches usually don’t know much about their catholic heritage. While almost all of the evangelicals I know who converted catholicism were very active in their churches and usually were teachers or ministers of one stripe or another. Also, their conversion tended to be preceded by intense study.

This is very true. I converted ten years ago after several years of intense study. I also know personally of an Anglican minister (whose church I used to attend with my family) who left the Anglican Church along with half of his parish to become Catholic.

My mother is still an Episcopalian. She said to me recently that she knows of a number of Catholics who have recently joined her church. I told her that, while she was correct, the Catholic Church attracts orthodox, committed Christians among ex-Protestant converts. On the other hand, the only ex-Catholics we know of are either individuals who never really knew the Faith they are renouncing, or are intensely angry with some aspect of Catholicism–like the man my husband knows who was working on his third marriage and got mad because the Church wouldn’t allow him to receive the Eucharist. I also know of a priest and a nun who joined the Anglican Church so they could get married.

 

[Loren_1of6]

Who are “we”? I’m certainly not ready to do any such thing. I don’t trust ex-Mormons any more than ex-anything else.

And I should clarify–by “don’t trust” I don’t mean that such people are liars. I simply mean that they’re rarely capable of describing their previous tradition in terms that continued adherents of that tradition find acceptable.

It’s all in Kuhn, all in Kuhn. . . .

Edwin

I apologize for using the generic “we.” I was alluding to the number of times I see people who ask about Mormonism being sent to sites established by ex-Mormons. I did not check your profile to see whether you were one of those who point to those sites or not.