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Or, as the article is actually titled, The Convert\u2019s Unnecessary Worries<\/a>. Writing on the Catholic Pulse<\/em> website, I try to explain why so many convert\u2019s fret about the Church when their cradle Catholic brethren move through life so serenely.<\/p>\n

The problem, it seems to me from observation and experience, is that we converts have trouble seeing the Church as a living body, one that grows and does what it\u2019s supposed to even though it\u2019s imperfect. . . .\u00a0[W]\u00a0don\u2019t have enough experience of living in a living body to really understand how it works. . . .<\/p>\n

The Church as a living body is one of those things we don\u2019t really get for a while, if ever. The ecclesiology we have down. We can rattle off the wheat-and-tares arguments against Evangelicals who go on about this or that Catholic scandal. Many of us have what is usually a slightly romantic love of the idea of the Church as \u201chere comes everybody.\u201d (The phrase is ascribed to James Joyce, but I\u2019m told he didn\u2019t say it.)<\/p>\n

But what in practice it actually means is we don\u2019t really know, and we\u2019re not at all comfortable with what we do know about it. . . .<\/p>\n

\u00a0In the rest of the article I describe how this works out in practice. While I\u2019m at it, let me mention my first two columns for Aleteia<\/em>, Single and Catholic<\/a> and Promiscuity Pays<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"