Dave Keller, known also as “mormon fool,” plugged into Catholic life for a bit between Good Friday and Easter Sunday. He relates his experiences on Mormons and Catholics. It’s always interesting to read one’s experience of another’s faith.
I should introduce that blog, since I’m supposed to be one of the principal contributors. Dave came up with the idea and set it up – a blog where Mormon and Catholic authors are invited to have open, in-depth, charitable dialogue. I don’t know of any other such effort on the Internet, so this is exciting.
As I mentioned, I’m supposed to write for it, but right now I have many other things to occupy my time, so I probably won’t get started until mid-May or so.
May… jeez. I’m almost 21.
I am totally adding this site to my blogroll. But … should I put it under Catholic or Mormon?
Mormic? Cathom?
I was a catholic for 36 yrs. I felt so empty and unloved. I felt no spirit of God. The priests resembled frauds and hipocrits to me. They smoked cigarettes, they did not work a job for a living, they lived off the backs of the parishioners, and they decided if my child could continue attending their catholic grammar school, based on how much cash I threw into their basket.
Then along came the Mormon missionaries. Like night and day difference. Like darkness and lightness difference. Like unloved and overwhelming love. I know in my heart and in my soul and with all my might that Mormonism is the truest church on the face of the earth.
I know that Catholicism is fraud, communism, paganism, and fake in every way–straight up to the pope, who had small cell sized bedrooms in the 1960′s for all his concubines. He also has a solid gold bathtub with the 12 zodiacs etched into it and surrounding him. He is the evil one who rules the world, along with the queen mum. He is in bed with the masons too. His catholic conquest has murdered millions.
The Mormons have no blood on their hands. They obey God.
This the firt time I’ve seen your site. Interesting.
Living on the West Coast, we encounter a lot of Mormons, but my most interesting encounter was on a visit with a youth group to Salt Lake City. We had but a single Mormon among us, but because of the historical significance of the Mormon occupation of Utah, we thought it appropriate to go to the visitor center at the temple.
We were treated kindly, with the docent paying specail attention to the lone 2saint” among us. We were all surprised, maybe baffled by his statement that his church and the Catholic Church were the same thing. I wonder if the Pope and the presidnet of the LDS were aware of this revelation.
lol. Thanks for the comment.
The Mormon church and Catholic church are similiar in some ways and different in other ways. The main thing we have in common is that both of us claim that Jesus gave the authority of the church to Peter. Mormons believe Peter gave it to Joseph Smith and Catholics believe he gave it to the Roman Bishop and it was passed down to the Pope. Both churches believe that the church as well as the bible are necessary. Neither church feels the bible alone is sufficient. I am Mormon but I graduated from a Catholic College. I am grateful to have experienced up close of both religions.
I have often wished they were literally the same. I think I understand the sentiment of the tour guide that made the statement even if it’s not very accurate. The intention was to state that the Mormon Church sees itself as what the Catholic Church should have been. That’s a result of the LDS understanding of the Apostasy.
Catholic-Kennedy converts to Mormonism. Caroline Kennedy has a cousin name Matthew Kennedy who is not only LDS (mormon) but he owns LDS Living Magazine. Matthew Joseph Kennedy gradutaed from Hardvard Business School. I wonder if there is any LDS support for Caroline in New York. I know that the Mormon church started in New York. There is some connection between Matthew J. Kennedy and the White House…. Kennedy is listed as a guest of the White House this past summer. If the Boston Globe got after LDS Living Magazine for supporting Romney, I wonder what, If anything it will say about Caroline Kennedy being featured. I have heard that Kennedy was a Catholic and converted to Mormonism.