“For some reason Protestants in recent decades have ceded much of the public space to Catholics. Right-wing Catholic political commentators like Jack Posobiec, Matt Walsh, and Michael Knowles have no trouble openly proselytizing for their denomination. Meanwhile, their Protestant peers are more reticent to talk about their Protestant faith in public…”
(Mike Sabo – American Reformer) Online Pop-Catholic Apologists Need to Be Confronted. With all the discussion over Matthew Barrett’s exit from the SBC, you’d think he converted to Rome—but fortunately, he stayed within Protestantism. Barrett’s very public break has understandably come under fire by Baptists for the way he went about it, and for some of the unfair claims he leveled at the SBC. But one positive outcome for Protestants is that he declined to convert to the Roman Catholic Church.
It’s no secret that intellectuals, scholars, and political leaders like Vice President JD Vance have been crossing the Tiber in recent years. Elites becoming Catholic isn’t a new phenomenon. The Holy See announced on Thursday that John Henry Newman, likely the most famous Roman Catholic convert in recent centuries, will become a doctor of the Catholic Church, joining Augustine, Ambrose, Jerome, Thomas Aquinas, Teresa of Avila, and Catherine of Siena.
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