Catholic Fundamentalist?
FROM a reader:
I have been reading your "deluge of false prophets" series, and to tell you the truth, I am a little concerned. Let me explain… I am a recent convert to the Church. I was once a fundamentalist Protestant Pastor of the "meanest kind"—I was a bigot! Then someone gave me a book by Pope John Paul II— and I fell in love with this man’s writing. I resigned as Pastor in 1995 and in 2005 I came into the Church. I went to Franciscan University (Steubenville) and got a Masters in Theology.
But as I read your blog—I saw something I did not like—an image of myself 15 years ago. I am wondering, because I swore when I left Fundamentalist Protestantism that I would not substitute one fundamentalism for another. My thoughts: be careful you do not become so negative that you lose sight of the mission.
Is it possible that there is such an entity as "Fundamentalist Catholic?" I worry about the heteronomic element in your message.
The reader here raises an important question: are my writings overly negative? After writing about "false prophets," am I perhaps a "false prophet" myself, blinded by a spirit of "doom and gloom," and thus, unhinged from reality such that I have lost sight of my mission? Am I, after all is said and done, simply a "Fundamentalist Catholic?"
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