{"id":2482,"date":"2012-09-05T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/09\/my-life-as-a-protestant-clergy-convert-to-catholicism.html"},"modified":"2012-09-05T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T08:30:00","slug":"my-life-as-a-protestant-clergy-convert-to-catholicism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/09\/my-life-as-a-protestant-clergy-convert-to-catholicism.html","title":{"rendered":"My life as a Protestant Clergy Convert to Catholicism"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>I know, I know.\u00a0 The Catholic Church doesn\u2019t owe me anything.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been informed of that several times in my journey.\u00a0 Still, it\u2019s no fun when things are unraveling and you are aware of the fact that all you need do is step back into your past life and all will be well.\u00a0 Perhaps this is just the cross we are called to bear right now, that I believe the Catholic Faith to be the True Faith, and whatever else come what may.\u00a0 Still, I can at least have fun with it.\u00a0 As finances diminish, and things get desperate, I couldn\u2019t help but think of this classic WB cartoon:<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know, I know.\u00a0 The Catholic Church doesn\u2019t owe me anything.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been informed of that several times in my journey.\u00a0 Still, it\u2019s no fun when things are unraveling and you are aware of the fact that all you need do is step back into your past life and all will be well.\u00a0 Perhaps this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>My life as a Protestant Clergy Convert to Catholicism<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I know, I know.&nbsp; 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