I'm a lapsed Quaker. I don't go to meetings any more. But I'm very drawn to Catholicism - all that glitter. I'd love to be a Catholic. I think it would be fantastic - faith forgiveness absolution extreme unction - all these wonderful words. I don't think anyone who was ever born a Catholic hasn't died a Catholic no matter how lapsed they are.
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I believe though I do not comprehend and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp...
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And in that I cannot send unto you all my businesses in writing I despatch...
The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India......
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