Found your blog the other day and put catholicism in your search and found this old post. As a former charismatic, evangelical christian I too believed what you wrote :

For all its ideals, piety, and art, Catholicism differed from the New Testament in doctrine, morals, and administration. Most men and women of conscience realized this, and called with increasing urgency for “reform in head and members”.

Can I politley suggest you read my blog, particularly my conversion story? Your comment that Catholicism differed from the NT in doctrine, morals etc is puzzling to me. Would you care to share what you find are the contradictions? I am not arguing that the Church at times through history needed reforming, repentance etc, but the doctrines and moral of Catholicism (not abusive practices) have never wavered from the NT. Remember Rich, for the first 350 years after Christ, there was no canonized collection of books and the Church flourished throughout the ancient world with out the Bible as you and I have come to know it. Take care, thanks for your hints about blog traffic by the way.

God bless