Dr. John Bergsma

But I mean, all of that is worth talking about.

I think, first of all, folks have to understand that the way the question is phrased, I thank the person writing this in and totally respect them.

I understand where they're coming from.

But they're dealing with a picture of the Catholic church, like the church is eager to find something that you don't believe correctly and then condemn you for it.

And I wanna assure everybody that the Catholic church is not eager to condemn anyone.

And the Catholic church wants to be gentle with everyone and lead people to a situation of trust.

So to become Catholic and to receive a baptism, it's not required that you have all of the doctrines of the church thought out and completely understood and are so totally confident that you can personally prove them or something like this.

It suffices...

for you to say, you know what?

I don't understand everything, but I submit my intellect to the church.

I believe the church is Mrs. Jesus.

And just like a wife can write a check on her husband's account, okay?

I believe that the church as Mrs. Jesus shares in the authority of Christ and I will humble my intellect to Christ whose body is the church.

And this is what I did myself, Matt, because I did not understand the Marian doctrines and I couldn't see my way through the papal infallibility

prior to becoming Catholic.

But I was absolutely convinced on the Eucharist.

I knew Jesus was really present there based on the testimony of Ignatius of Antioch in the scriptures.

So I said, I can become Catholic.

I don't understand...

the Marian doctrines, I don't understand the papal doctrines, but I will trust, okay?