Attraktive Braut

"... one of the great untold stories of recent decades is the number of adults entering into full communion with the Catholic Church – about 200,000 per year in this country (USA) alone. Among them are distinguished theologians, mainly from Lutheranism and Anglicanism, such as Robert Louis Wilken of the University of Virginia, R.R. Reno of Creighton, Bruce Marshall of Southern Methodist, Douglas Farrow of McGill, Gary Anderson of Notre Dame, and Reinhard Hütter of Duke, to mention only a few.

It is possible that at no time in modern Catholic history since Newman and his friends entered the Church in the mid-19th century have so many distinguished thinkers from Protestant denominations become Catholic. You may be sure that none of them thought he was joining 'this denomination.' They understand themselves to have entered into communion with the Church of Jesus Christ most fully and rightly ordered through time. And they did so with eyes wide open to the problems that have prompted some cradle Catholics to try, fortunately in vain, to turn the Catholic Church into just another denomination." (Fr. Richard John Neuhaus - On the Square)