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# The Catholic Church and Conversion

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    Chesterton thinks that Guilds are a better social system than Capitalism
  

*by F***O on Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2015*

The book provides much food for thought.  According to Chesterton, Catholicism has a recognized place among the New Religions because of its understanding of the modern world.  Protestantism, which was considered normal in the 19th century, is going in various directions, following fads.  Protestants, who had just proved that Rome did not believe in the Bible, were excitedly discovering that they did not believe in the Bible themselves.  The mark of the Catholic faith is not tradition; it is conversion.  To a Catholic, the Church is not his child but his mother.  The critic fears not the vices of the Catholic Church but its virtues, confession being one of them.  Eventually, as the critic learns about the Church, no Protestant can hold him back from conversion.  A person converts to Catholicism in three phases: (1) he tries to be a detached judge of Catholic teaching; (2) he becomes excited to find truth where he did not expect for find it; and (3) he fears and resists conversion to what he previously abhorred.  Truth is the trap.One application of Catholic thinking concerns wealth distribution.  According to Catholic thinking, wealth is not to be taken away from everybody or given in trust to politicians (as in Socialism).  It is to be given to everybody.  Chesterton thinks that Guilds are a better social system than Capitalism.Catholic philosophy is a universal philosophy found to fit anywhere with human nature and the nature of things.  It is common sense.  Some people, especially young people, who abandon Catholicism abandon it not for Protestantism but for paganism.  They abandon it for things and not theories.  They abandon it for passion and not reason.  They want to have their own way.  The controversy is no longer between two philosophies, as was the Catholic and the Calvinist, but between philosophers and philanderers.

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    How could you leave what you never were?
  

*by J***Y on Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2016*

A timeless, reason-laden exposition of the difference between the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church verses the many human-created sects brought into being to meet the subjectivistic leanings of this sect or another. Thousands ofDenominations, all declining in number, as one denomination breaks into yet another denomination to be relevant. Yes Catholic young leave in their quest for freedom,  but certainly not to join a sect. One kid told me that he was a recoveringCatholic. After a dozen questions about the Catholic Church, he could answer not one. I responded: "How can you leave what you never were?"

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    Answer to the Question of why I am a Catholic
  

*by T***E on Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2013*

I have had a sense that I live under a different world view as a cradle Catholic; the outside  world that G K Chesterton call topsy turvy  looking in. The issues of abortion, same sex marriage and the HHS Mandate peel like thunder  to me because of my Catholic outlook.  When I did sense my Catholic outrage on the outside world I would cower because I did not want to be labeled a bigot or narrow minded Having read this book I now believe that our Catholic world view is universal and open minded. Chesterton talks of the Catholic Church's universality and the Church militant. He speaks of how, because of the Protestant revolt, how their objections to us are not really the objections that actually exist. Protestantism to him has aspects of Catholic teaching over emphasized on one end over the other. To him we are all Catholic because we as a Catholic Church embrace both sides of the issue. The Church is not a small restricted sect. When we leave a sect we can breath and see that the Catholic view is a breath of fresh air. He speaks of the process that a convert will go through to come to this conclusion from his own conversion experience. He speaks to me because that process is just as applicable for this cradle Catholic as he journeys onto his next step in his spiritual life.  He gives me words as to why I am a Roman Catholic. I highly recommend this book.  I also recommend one reads Heretics and  Orthodoxy before reading this book. I also read his short essay "Upon This Rock" before I read this book.Again, there is an issue in formatting in this version. Sentences do not complete on the same line and leave a blank space jumping to the next line.  There is a "T" missing in the word the in one of the pages. This is why I am giving this version four stars instead of five.

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