“Too many Catholics are uncomfortable using the biblical and traditional words, ‘Repent,’ convert and conversion. To repent means to change your mind and come to a new way of living. To convert means to turn from sinful ways or erroneous teaching.
But too many Catholics, including priests are uncomfortable using words like this. We used to speak of convert classes etc. But now many prefer abstract descriptions like, ‘Inquiry Classes’ or the even more abstract ‘RCIA’
“Many draw back lest they seem to suggest that others are wrong, ‘going wrong,’ need to change, or, heaven [forbid], ‘sinful.’ Words like repent and convert more than suggest that there is right and wrong, true and false, sanctity and sinfulness, good and evil.”
In a recent commentary, Monsignor Charles Pope (pastor of Holy Comforter-Saint Cyprian Parish, Washington, DC) reflected on the call to repentance and to conversion that each of us is receiving from the Lord and on th eimportance of turning our lives over to Jesus in love and obedience.
To access Msgr. Pope’s complete post, please visit:
Msgr. Charles Pope: Repent! Convert! Two Words that Need to Be Rediscovered. (7 AUG 13)
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