In a Huffington Post article, Susan J. Stabile writes:
"But for Buddhism, I could not be Catholic today. When I left Catholicism my sense of independence and self-sufficiency was too strong to accommodate a personal relationship with, or recognition of my dependence on, God. Buddhism's individuality was much more consonant with my self-image, and Buddhism offered me a means of developing a spirituality that facilitated my eventual return to God."
Read the rest of the article here.
Stabile is the author of Growing in Love and Wisdom: Tibetan Buddhist Sources for Christian Meditation.