Dr Taylor Marshall Podcast 1099: 8 Reasons Why We Became Catholic: Dr. Gavin Ashenden on Dr. Taylor Marshall [Podcast]
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Jun 20, 2024 
Dr. Gavin Ashenden, former Church of England priest and Anglican bishop, shares his journey to Catholicism with Dr. Taylor Marshall. They discuss conflicts with Anglican beliefs, the appeal of Catholicism's clarity and structure, challenges faced in Anglican traditions, reasons for converting, embracing Catholic teachings on controversial topics, aesthetics in liturgical practices, and the importance of Church authority.
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Pray For A Clear Yes Before Converting
- When discerning conversion, seek pastoral invitation and pray for clarity rather than long intellectual delay.
- Ashenden accepted a bishop's invitation and felt a clear spiritual 'green light' that moved him to be received within two weeks.
Demonic Attack Broken By Rosary
- Ashenden experienced intense demonic attacks that after praying the rosary were replaced by the scent of roses, which he took as Our Lady's intervention.
- A Catholic exorcist friend advised the rosary; after group rosary prayer icons stopped being thrown from walls in his home.
Anglo Catholicism Risks Being Playacting
- Ashenden says Anglo‑Catholicism in Anglicanism can be playacting because its orders and ordinal repudiate a sacrificial priesthood.
- He cites Apostolicae Curae and Cranmer's ordinal to argue Anglican liturgy lacks valid sacrificial priesthood authority.