Doh! Should have said ALMOST every one… it’s definitely something we’re trying to be more sensitive to, though, if you read most of our recent articles and posts!

Not really. “And while there has been a revival of the observance of Lent in some Protestant Churches, it’s still a drastic change for converts to Catholicism, once they realize that the liturgical calendar is literally full of feast days; there’s a saint, and usually multiple, for every day of the calendar year.”

At any rate, I think Dr. Peters was being kinda particular, and not really using the term as it most often is used. I am myself a convert from the Southern Baptists, and the process was referred to (perhaps technically incorrectly) as conversion the whole time. I don’t think that is at all offensive, by the way — it is a huge decision for any convert — though I do take exception to the idea that baptized Christians who profess the Divinity of Christ and the Holy Trinity are converting from a different religion. I was just having a bit of fun with you, though.

You’ll note that every use of the word “convert” in this post is by a non-Catholic Christian who became a Catholic. We try to avoid that term when speaking to people considering Catholicism from other Christian backgrounds, for the reasons the article you linked to mentions.

The word “convert,” in its application and its general understanding, is a lot like the word “protestant”; it gets used broadly on a lot of people (and a lot of people use it broadly on themselves), when the word in fact has a much more precise and technical meaning than its usage would indicate. That’s why we also try to find words besides “protestant” to describe non-Catholic Christians who seek us out!