Eclectic Amateur

I haven’t stayed away from reading blogs. (At least it’s not technically Lent today.)

Evidence is at Amy Welborn’s here and here.

(For those who don’t follow the links, they’re commentary on various Catholic scandals.)

I keep seeing numbers about the quantity of adult converts to Catholicism in America yearly, in the range of 160,000 – 200,000. I find this absolutly astonishing. At that rate, supposedly Catholic converts alone make up the 9th largest religious denomination in America. (Certainly dwarfing the poor, befuddled ECUSA.)

Either a tremendous amount of these are via marriage, or there’s some serious work of Grace going on — because it sure isn’t the winsomeness of the hierarchy, for the most part. (Exceptions made for His Holiness John Paul II and various heroic local priests, of course. And not all bishops are destined as paving-stones, although certainly the peril is great …)