A Convert's Manifesto

What has been very instructive for me in the almost 2 years of being a Catholic - and a blogger - was to see how easy it is to go wrong, to become fanatical on the left or the right, how to , as John Paul II. said, to think that a piece of the pie is the whole pie. Another common mistake is to think that if one is against something liberal it has to mean being for something conservative, or vice versa.

The search for the perfect church eventually ends in the "church of me" - once the Catholic Church isn't "perfect" enough, one might go Orthodox, or SSPX, heck then SSPX might not seem "perfect" enough anymore and one joins SSPV etc...in the end one'd be ordaining oneself. Community of saints: Population 1

So, as an exhortation to myself and everyone - keep a close watch, but don't use a microscope. And, to adapt a corny saying, be the change you want to see in the Church.

Couldn't have said it better myself. I found myself early on after my conversion so angry about the things that were wrong that I lost sight of the reason I converted in the first place. It has taken a while for me to realize that the Church I converted to is a hospital for the sick... it is for the sinner and for the to-be saint. Eventually you find your niche. Eventually you see that Church history has seen a swinging pendulum correcting conservative and liberal excesses to pinpoint the truth somewhere in the middle. You also come to realize that the Church solves problems in eras not weeks.

See My own struggles with the people in the pew next to me especially the "dynamic unique to Catholicism"