More Wisdom from Scott Hahn

There was nothing pathological about my anti-Catholicism. I was just convinced that there was no other denomination like Catholicism. No other denomination makes the kind of claims that the Catholic Church makes for itself. Being the one, true Church that dates all the way back to the Apostles with an unbroken line of succession, for the bishops and especially the pope, the successor of Peter. Good night, what a claim! But the claims aren’t as bad as the demands. Because they demand of their members this loyalty, this belief in infallibility, in the existence of mortal sins, in the need to confess sins in the confessional to priests, specifically in number and kind. Mine was an informed opposition. At least, partially. Looking at this from appearances alone, the Catholic Church is a lot to swallow. And I don’t think we always recognize how much of a gift of faith God has given us for us to receive the faith, and for us to love the Church, and for us to want to stay in the Church and grow and raise our family in the Church as well.

—Scott Hahn from Secrets to Sharing Your Faith with Anti-Catholics