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It is stated that there is no-one more zealous in a cause than an adult convert. A well known example of this is Joseph McCabe, whose transformation was not to a religion, but from religious faith to secularism. Ordained as a Franciscan priest in 1890, and later identified by the Catholic Church as an able scholar and instructor, by 1897 McCabe experienced completely lost his faith and had kept the priesthood. He became a very active secularist, providing thousands of public lectures and posting over 2 hundred books on a variety of religious, historical and clinical topics. First released in 1896, From Rome to Rationalism details McCabe's journey from faith to humanism. The content was later broadened into a complete memoir, Twelve Years in a Monastery. Like his humanist peers, Robert Ingersoll and Robert Blatchford, McCabe endured prolonged vilification for his anti-religious views. It's been noted that much of McCabe's literary output does consist of material critical of the Catholic Church. However, he claimed that he seen all religions in the same light, and it would appear that his concentrate on Catholicism was anticipated mostly to his prior deep immersion in it, and to the status of the chapel as the most significant and most important Christian denomination.
