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Taking the Detroit Catholic high school placement test on a lark (my engineer father has always recommended that I keep my options open), I won a partial scholarship to Detroit Catholic Central High School, which was far closer and had many more course offerings than the Lutheran high school I would otherwise have attended. (Catholic Central also had a powerhouse football program.) Though my pastor feared that going to a Catholic school would confuse my Lutheran mind, I enrolled...
...even though the environment should have made their beliefs more evident. Harvard is a pretty “godless” place: just to believe the things that the Catholic Church teaches should make one stick out like a sore thumb. I mean, why would a serious Lutheran ever want to become a lukewarm Catholic...
...pastor’s fears could not have been further from the truth. Rather than turning me from my faith, my four years of Catholic high school reinforced my beliefs in biblical Lutheranism. Sticking out as I did, I was always the “go-to guy” when questions of Protestant theology arose. I had to be on my toes continually: I read the Bible every day and worked to anticipate and research topics in advance to represent them correctly to my Catholic classmates. Because I always had to defend my faith, I left for college with...
Catholic Central helped me stay Lutheran in more ways than one. In Lutheran grade school we may have joked about Catholics who knelt to adore a piece of bread or prayed to Mary daily or believed that their Church’s tradition was on the same level as the Bible. At Catholic Central I didn’t find any of those Catholics. There certainly were people that had been baptized and “raised” Catholic, it’s just that none of them acted Catholic. Their parents’ generation had practically abandoned...
...with a devout roommate I hadn’t gotten to know yet in my first year, I discovered a group of active and faithful Catholics (N.B.: you do not have to be Catholic to be pro-life—my mother was once vice president of Michigan Lutherans for Life—but the Catholic Church is always emphatic and outspoken in the pro-life movement). Even though they weren’t Lutheran, they did share my culture and attitudes more than any other group on campus. I would continue in literalist Lutheranism for two more years, while...