I was raised Presbyterian (PCUSA) and became Catholic in college. My story of how that came about is strikingly similar in many ways to ThetaPrincess'.
And I do believe in, support, and practice the moral applications (ie, birth control, Mass weekly, fill-in-your-choice-here, etc etc etc)
FWIW, Mr. Adrienne is the same--except he converted in grad school from the United Methodist Church.
Happy New Year, Everybody!
(We got in a couple of hours ago from Houston's biggest NYE party at the Hyatt Regency Downtown. We're blowing off the opening of the "commuter lite rail"
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Adrienne
( ETA Off to join my other half watching Purdue in the WhateverIt'sCalledNow (formerly Citrus) Bowl)
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Originally posted by ThetaPrincess24
I was raised Baptist. However, my senior year in high school I took it upon myself to find out about the "terrible" catholic church that I kept hearing so much about. So I attended a mass with some friends of mine that were catholic. I saw nothing wrong with it, what I had been told of the catholic church I found out was false as I saw for myself, and I rather enjoyed it. I enjoyed it so much in fact I continued to go to mass every week with my friends. I even attended the youth group with them, and one even sponsored me in RCIA. That year at the Easter Vigil mass I was baptized, confirmed, and took my first communion. Very overwhelming and powerful experience and one I've never regretted. Unfortunately while I no longer attend mass as "religiously" as I once did, I do pray each day, I do read from my Bible, and do try to live a moral life to the best of my ability (to the best of my ability doenst mean that I am "holier than thou" and dont have my moments of sin because I certainly do). I also prefer to date other catholics as I am looking for that someone and I do intend to have a catholic wedding and raise my children in the catholic church, so whoever would have to be okay with that, eventhough most of my dad's side of the family and half of my mother's side of the family are in total disagreement..........(some even disowned me for leaving the Baptist church and joining the Catholic church but that's a separate story).
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