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Harry Wallace, of Harper's Choice, was what he called a "cradle Episcopalian," a person baptized and raised in the Episcopal Church. As a youth, he was an altar boy and later served as a Eucharist minister in the church.
But Wallace, 53, said he and his wife, Pam, became increasingly disturbed in recent years by the liberalization of the church. As the church hierarchy moved toward accepting gay unions and ordaining gay priests, Wallace began to feel more and more uncomfortable.
"The angst and the division was troubling," Wallace said. "In our tradition and our belief set, we were becoming more and more marginalized."
Last year, Wallace and his wife converted to the Roman Catholic Church.
Their decision was hardly unique. Such conversions are part of a trend encouraged and recognized by the Catholic Church -- a trend that also is a two-way street, as even Catholics concede.
"We lose Catholics on the liberal side," noted Peter Berbenitz, who does outreach for St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church, in Wilde Lake. "For everyone that goes, another one comes back."
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