There was an article in yesterday's Boston Globe about Latino Catholics who are converting to evangelical Protestantism. In the quote below, Garcia is the evangelical guy and Reyes is the Catholic priest.
Garcia said that when a Catholic comes to his church seeking Christ, he treats them "as if they have not been going to church."
"We believe that most people [who] have grown up in the Catholic Church are not truly Christians," Garcia said. That is because, Garcia said, most Catholics have been going to church out of tradition, rather than for spiritual reasons.
Reyes said that he tells parishioners to deal with such attitudes with politeness and to view them as a test of faith. He said that some evangelical leaders aren't open to working with Catholics and even decline to attend a Catholic church for a funeral or wedding. For example, on Tuesday, Reyes said, he presided over a funeral of a person with Catholic and evangelical family members. The evangelical members refused to enter the Catholic church for services.
Now again I beg the question, "What would be the result if it were the other way around?" So I suppose I should see dozens of letters to the editor in this week's paper in protest of evangelicalism, right?
