…Oddly enough, it came from a judge too. A judge ruled that a state law removing city employee residency requirements applies to Cleveland city employees. This seems like a common sense freedom to me. You should be able to live where you want. Forcing people to live in a city (especially one with lots of crime and other problems) just because they work there strikes me as wrongheaded. Bravo Judge Peter Corrigan!
Mark Shea has written an excellent blog entry entitled Cautionary Tales, which summarizes the importance of Protestants becoming Catholic because they believe in the Catholic Truth, not because they simply want to escape the _____ (liberalism, lack of authority, denominationalism, etc) of Protestantism. Those may be good reasons to explore Catholicism, but certainly not convert. This article should be required reading in all RCIA classes. Here are some excerpts from Marks’ piece:
One of the things that often worries me about converts to the Catholic
faith, especially from Protestantism, is that some of them seem to me
to be still basically Protestant. They are sometimes becoming Catholic,
not because they have concluded that the Church is the trustworthy
sacrament of redemption given to the world by Christ and guided by the
Holy Spirit, but because they are fed up with Protestantism and are
leaving it and joining the Catholic–in *protest*.
And:
The main counsel I give anybody coming in to the Church is that "faith"
means "you stay." The Catholic Church is and always has been the vessel
of salvation for the *world*. That means that most of the people you
meet are going to be *ordinary*–like you and me.
Read the entire essay…lots of wisdom here.
Hat tip: Chad
