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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He seems like a sort of sad figure in that there was a lot missing in his life growing up and he’s been looking for ways to fill that hole.   He does seem like an opportunist so I’m not confident that he didn’t choose conversion in part due to the political advantage, but evangelicalism might have served him better there.  At any rate, I find the Trunp policies and attitudes/rhetoric  to be entirely antithetical to Catholic teaching,so I can’t be impressed by the faith of any Catholic that hitches his wagon to Trump.

Of all the things about the Catholic Church that I find most disappointing, the Catholic support of Trump is near the top of the list.  [b]If the majority of the faithful are voting for this,[/b] I think that the Church is failing to effectively communicate Jesus’s message.  I find it really depressing.  WWJD?  Not be anywhere near Trump, that’s for sure.[/quote]

52% of Catholics voted for Biden in the last election.  I think that's still depressingly low, but your statement that I bolded is false.

I will say that in my experience, there are many converts to Catholicism who are attracted to what they see as a structure and an emphasis on rules, who can be far more rigid and conservative than the majority of cradle Catholics.  They tend to bring the worst parts of Evangelism with them when they join the church, and it's a bad combination.  [/quote]

I always think of this tweet: https://x.com/agraybee/status/1537869930242113536

Every lifelong Catholic I've ever met is like "I think we're supposed to give this food to poor people" and every adult convert is like "the Archon of Constantinople's epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the eucharist clearly states women shouldn't have driver's licenses."[/quote]

I'm the one you quoted.  I'm a convert myself, because it was important to me that we be able to attend church as a family, and Catholicism was more important to DH than Episcopalianism was to me.  So, there are definitely some more liberal converts.

But yes, there are a lot of converts who fit that description perfectly.  [/quote]

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