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Not if he is personally contented with his religion, has never adverted to any reasons for doubting his position, and experiences absolute peace of conscience in it. He should riot/ of course, remain a Protestant merel) because he has inherited the religion he professes from his parents. Hei should have better reasons than that; and if, on inquiry, he discovers that! his parents were mistaken, he has no duty to go on making the same mistake] just because his parents did not advert to their error. But if any ProtestantB6 does experience doubts about his position, with consequent uneasiness of) conscience, then he is obliged before God to go into the matter sufficiently; to solve those doubts and adopt a religious position his conscience can! wholeheartedly approve.
Not if, despite his thorough investigation, he fails through no fault of his own to become convinced of the truth of the Catholic religion, and is still honestly persuaded that his form of Protestantism is right. Personally, however, I would say that if a man did investigate the Catholic religion yet did not become convinced of its truth, then either he would not have investigated it with sufficient thoroughness, or would not have done so impartially owing to inherited prejudices, or would not have prayed enough and as earnestly as he should to God for the grace to see its truth and for the courage to embrace it.
That could be because you have not studied it with sufficient care; or it may be that the full significance of what you have read has not yet dawned upon you. The knowledge of a thing and the realization of it are two very different things. When one studies the life of G. K. Chesterton, one wonders why he did not become a Catholic long before he did. But, as he quaintly put it, one often sees a thing for the first time when he looks at it for the hundredth time. And then there is always the factor of the grace of God. If you-continue to pray earnestly to know God's will, you may yet see things differently.
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