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Things Catholic is a blog on issues within the Catholic Church; on the good, the bad, and the ugly.
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A Catholic Growth Trend (opens the original)
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Most of you know that I am a convert to Catholicism. I have been Catholic for 38 years and still remember the Easter Vigil when I entered the Church. My journey was not as shocking or climactic as with many other converts. I was raised by devoutly Lutheran parents. I never disavowed God or Christianity. My journey was just a gradual realization that the centrality of the Holy Eucharist in the life of a Christian was as essential to my soul as oxygen to the body. I remember that I was taken aback
Purgatory (opens the original)
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To Protestants, there is probably nothing in Roman Catholicism that is more objectionable than the notion of purgatory. For them, salvation and justification are simply a matter of believing in Jesus… Read more
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