6.07.2007
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Lapsed Catholic?
To anyone who keeps track of such things, I'd be counted as a lapsed Catholic. A former daily-goer-to-Mass and pray-er-of-the-Rosary Catholic, now a member of a Baptist church.
The point of this post is simple: to state, unequivocally, that if I write anything that is critical of my former church, it is out of love. And if I come across as mean-spirited, that is simply because I am a poor scribe. Not because of any malice in my heart towards the Church of Rome.
Even as a Baptist, I remain a brother to all Catholics. What we share, the Incarnation, the Passion, the Resurrection, and Pentecost so far outweighs what separates us that I am tempted to state, we are all Catholic.
Just as we are all Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran, name your denomination. Wherever Christ is king, and not just an excuse to socialize in the parish hall after services.
The point of this post is simple: to state, unequivocally, that if I write anything that is critical of my former church, it is out of love. And if I come across as mean-spirited, that is simply because I am a poor scribe. Not because of any malice in my heart towards the Church of Rome.
Even as a Baptist, I remain a brother to all Catholics. What we share, the Incarnation, the Passion, the Resurrection, and Pentecost so far outweighs what separates us that I am tempted to state, we are all Catholic.
Just as we are all Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran, name your denomination. Wherever Christ is king, and not just an excuse to socialize in the parish hall after services.
Labels: Catholicism, ecumenicism
posted by John Luke at 8:42 PM
Welcome. My name is John Luke Rich, (very) struggling Christian. The focus here is Christianity in its many varieties,
its fussing and feuding, how it impacts our lives and our society, with detours to consider it with other faiths (or lack thereof).
1 Comments:
How as a Reformer I "should" view Catholicism is a bit of a struggle for me. I well know the darker parts of the Church's history, and like any good protestant, question the legitimacy of the RC's ecclesiastical authority. The veneration of Mary doesn't make much sense to me either. But my wife's best friend is Catholic, and it was through God's working in her in the right place at the right time that I started on the road from unbelief to regeneration. There are historical Catholic (or Orthodox) figures I admire—not least among them the Hebrew Catholic St Theresa Benedicta of the Cross (nee Edith Stein)—and some good stuff seems to have come out of some of them over the centuries. ;)
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