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Anyway, till then, I recommend checking out his conversion story <\/a>which, like so many conversion stories from Protestantism, is in part an expression of gratitude for his heritage and an account of the way grace builds on nature in becoming Catholic. <\/p>\n

Which reminds me, Catholic converts nearly always have lovely things to say about where they came from. \u201cRecovering Catholics\u201d pretty much never have anything good whatsoever to say about where they came from. <\/p>\n

Conversely, Catholic converts, while maintaining generally friendly relationships with their past, don\u2019t typically feel an obsessive need to hang around their old church, proclaiming their liberation from it and throwing rocks through the windows of the place and spray-painting the walls and nattering on endlessly about what was wrong with it in super-granular detail again and again and again for years. They move on with life. \u201cRecovering Catholics\u201d, in contrast, often spend their lives Not. Being. Catholic. (Have they mentioned they aren\u2019t Catholic anymore? I mean, so Not Catholic you wouldn\u2019t believe it. Free. From the Catholic Church, I mean. That they are totally free from and aren\u2019t obsessed with or anything). They also tend to have reams of advice for changing the Church they no longer care anything about.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"