Timothy Birdnow

Young people are converting to Catholicism at record rates these days.

They're also converting to Protestantism too but less so since the mainline Protestants have become so insanely liberal.

Here is something that gets me:

Notre Dame is a CATHOLIC school, for crying out loud; why should there be ANY converts there? That means Notre Dame has been taking in all sorts of non-Catholics over Catholics. What's the point of a Catholic university if it doesn't first cater to , uh, Catholics?

But the others are secular universities and this is a wonderful development.

Why is it happening now? These younger people have lived in a society steeped in Leftist Secularism and now the Left has bared it's fangs and they see it for what it is - a bankrupt, empty, angry philosophy of hatred. And they know from their own lives, having been raised under the banner of secularism, that there is no peace and no joy and no hope in the leftist doctrine of demons.

Ultimately Christianity is the only thing in this world that offers real hope. Islam? If you are a woman you are still second class in Allah's afterlife. In fact you don't have much to look forward to there even if you are a man unless you die in Jihad. Oh, you get to shag as many women as you like on Earth - you get four wives and as many "concubines" aka hookups as you please - but anyone who has lived that sort of life will tell you it is empty and hopeless after a while. Promiscuity is fun until you have your fill then it becomes torture. An endless string of people with whom you share nothing but a couple of minutes of physical pleasure. Empty.

Islam was always an appeal to Man's carnal nature; sex, women, power, fighting. And that is Christianity's chief rival. Judaism offers at least a better moral standard but it has problems too insofar as most Jews do not believe in a Heaven but expect to get their reward here. Life is not very rewarding and so it drives so many Jews into the arms of the Left because that offers the quick and easy path, or so many believe. Not all Jews certainly but a good many.

And these are the two main competitors of Christianity. Of course there is Hinduism, a doctrine of despair in my view as you must spent eons being reborn again and again in a pointless cycle of misery that ends with you actually being subsumed into a kind of Borg Collective where you become a kind of cell in the great brain that is god. Buddhism is more of the same, and actually less because it's not even a religion but more in line with Liberal thinking, a philosophy for life. Many Buddhists believe when you die you are just gone - poof! - and that is that as your atoms rejoin the Earth and recycle into new life. Who wants that?

All of these faiths are, in the end, traps, cycles you cannot break from of and which ultimately do not offer much in the way of peace of mind.

Christianity does and I would argue Catholicism does best of all because it lays out structure for you, roots to secure you properly. So many Protestant faiths offer simple grace with no strings, meaning it is meaningless in the end. No matter what you do you are "saved" to many Protestant sects. So you are free to be an ass if you like because your actions don't matter for your salvation - only the cross of Christ. Catholicism, on the other hand, says the Cross saves but you have to not only accept it but live it yourself. There is a partnership in salvation that should be very comforting because it means we have a hand in our own destiny. God not only gives us salvation as a gift but gives us a better gift - the pride of participating actively in what He is doing.

I know that many of you are Protestant here and that's fine; it works for you and that's what matters. But this is my own view of it and the view of the Catholic Church, or it used to be anyway before the Catholic Church turned Leftward and began preaching only a social Gospel devoid of the salvation of souls.

What the younger people are finding so appealing about Catholicism is this aspect, as well as the long and venerable traditions of the Catholic Faith (which is also true of the Orthodox, but that's a whole other can of worms) and the sense of being part of something far larger than yourself. You can get that in some Protestant faiths too but the very oldest Protestant faiths only go back a tad over five hundred years while Catholicism goes all the way back to St. Peter (and the Orthodox go back the same amount of time). Also, Catholicism is not as subjective as Protestantism; Protestants largely are the keepers of their own consciences and while they have to adhere to the doctrines of their particular sects they are pretty free to think as they please. Catholicism has a very clear set of doctrines, and there isn't a whole lot of subjectivity involved. Also, priests have real authority, whereas ministers are just guys who know more of the Bible than do their parishioners.

So I see why Catholicism is growing, despite the Church having now had two different Progressive imbeciles in the Papacy.

Naturally the Progressives in the Church will try to claim it was the reforms of Pope Francis and now Pope Leo that is driving the rise in conversions when in fact those conversions are happening IN SPITE OF the Progressivism infecting the Catholic Faith. People are coming not because it is easier these days but because it is still harder than many other religious traditions. Anything of value is worth sacrificing and laboring toward. If something is attained too easily it is just as easily valued. Young people realize this and want to believe in something real, and want to earn their place in the world.

At any rate, I welcome any conversion to Christianity, be it Catholic, Protestant, or Orthodox. The only way we can defeat the forces of darkness which have all allied to destroy Christ's Church is by growing that Church and bringing in new people, just as Christ commanded us. Right now there is a dark alliance between Muslims and the radical Left and that alliance is nothing short of the work of Satan himself, the old serpent, who is still trying to drag as many souls with him into Hell. All you had to do is look at the No Kings rallies to see the truth of that last statement. Look at the alliances; gay activists joining with Muslims, who toss homosexuals off buildings for Allah, because both hate Christ's Church more than each-other. You have radical feminists making common cause with the Iranian Ayatollahs, who would love nothing better than to put those loud-mouthed old hags under heavy tarps to hide their visage from the world, and who would stop them from being educated, from driving cars, from going out in public without a male chaperone. Everything the feminists claim to hate is advocated by the people they are standing with. But stand with them they do because they aren't white male Christians. This is the same hatred as that of Lucifer.

In Paradise Lost there is a scene where Satan is climbing out of Hell to despoil the Garden of Eden solely to spit at God and God is talking among Himself and marveling at the hatred of his once favorite angel. Does that seem any different than the hatred of the Progressive-Left towards America, towards Christians, towards white people an men? If so I don't see the difference.

So many young people are seeing the true ugliness of Liberalism and shuddering and turning away. And we are welcoming new brothers and sisters into the Kingdom of Heaven.

God be with them all.

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