So, my family and I are all converts, former Southern Baptists. We joined the Catholic Church in 2003 - the Boston Globe articles were still painfully fresh in everyone’s minds. (1)
Not because they denied the reality of the sin, but because the difference between the Catholic Church and where they’d come from was that both were led by human, broken, fallible people... (3)
Only the Catholic Church was founded by the Son of God.
Only the Catholic Church endured, despite that sin, despite the powers of Hell raging against it. (4)
Because I’m not becoming a priest for them. (5)
But I don’t want to be a priest because I think it will make me perfect, or respected, or even merely a better man. (8)