Another excellent article is Contraception and Conversion by David Mills. He begins by observing that progressive Catholics sometimes ask him why he converted - after all, the Episcopalian Church had everything: "married priests, women priests, homosexual priests, no doctrinal restrictions, evolving moral standards, and an official reason to be rude to the pope. What more could one want?" I found this section amusing:
I will often say, in as cheery, boosterish, and cheerleading a voice as I can manage, "My wife and I discovered the truth of the Church's teaching on contraception, and after a while we just had to join the one body in the world that was telling the truth about it."
That usually shuts down the conversation.
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...and it starts the interior conversation with the Lord.
Most excellent. Humanae vitae is set to make more conversions to the faith than any other encyclical.
Father George bloggingLOURDES
Thank you for this post. I must agree, the Church's teaching on artificial contraception is what convinced me to become Catholic. I was content to wade in the Tiber as a High Anglican until I figured this out, then I had to be Catholic.
While I certainly enjoy Auntie Joanna's essays, InsideCatholic isn't above ginning up a controversy to drive up its hit count. A case in point from 2008 was inviting an apologist with hitherto no interest in the "liturgy wars" to opine on how liturgy should have the comfort of a good pair of shoes. And the editors permit a particularly nasty dissenter to have free reign in its comment boxes, almost certainly for a similar purpose (generating viewers.)
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