Here are a couple of passages from emails I’ve received just today. You see good news and interesting journeys everywhere, if you just look.
I converted to Catholicism last December, nearly 5 years after my initial RCIA process. I have not been disappointed.. I have so much to learn. I will always have so much to learn. What I have appreciated about Catholicism is that no one shoots you for that reality. No one holds it against you that you are on a journey. That has been my experience anyway. Coming from a evangelical fundamentalist background it has been such a relief to be allowed to own my humanity instead of feeling like I have to apologize for it.
And then this, from a reader in Alabama:
Literarily, I have long devoured all of Walker Percy and O’Connor. I have just spent the past year reading Bouyer, Soloviev, Belloc, Balthasar, Newman, Chesterton, Neuhaus, Karl Adam, Adam Mohler, Ratzinger. And yes, they have thoroughly converted this Evangelical. I hope to be received into the church as soon as possible. It is very odd, but no less humorous, to ‘feel’ more Catholic than most Catholics I have met. And I do now sense far more heavily the reality of this O’Connor’s Christ-haunted South. Down here, it is the last thing you are supposed to take a hankerin to
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