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The latest from CHNetwork
This week’s episode of The Journey Home was a great discussion with Dr. Brian Duncan about his path from Baptist ministry to the Catholic Church.
In a bonus episode of On the Journey, Matt, Ken, and Kenny shared an invitation to a special conference for clergy converts, and discussed the last sermons they preached as Protestant pastors.
This week’s featured written story comes from Heidi Hess Saxton, whose world was turned upside down when the pastor of the congregation where she was leading music announced that he was becoming Catholic.
And on a new Insights, former Evangelical pastor Jeremy Rivera shares how he began to rethink the way he measured success in ministry.
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CONVERTS AND CONVERSION
This weekend marks the feast of St. Polycarp of Smyrna, who was converted by St. John the Apostle himself — the account of whose martyrdom is one of the earliest reliable Christian texts outside of the Bible.
Catholic Stand interviewed farmer and Catholic convert Jesse Straight about how his desire to cooperate with God’s creation factored into his Catholic journey.
And Catholic News Agency shared the conversion story of a former international pickpocket.
APOLOGETICS PICKS OF THE WEEK
Dominic Fleury looked at the properties of salt, and how that makes sense of the ways Jesus talked about it in his parables.
And with IVF in the news, Bishop Michael Burbidge of Arlington shared a statement reiterating the Catholic teaching against the practice, referring back to a letter he issued earlier this year that breaks down the reasons the Church stands against IVF.
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“As the soul is the life of the body, so the Holy Spirit is the life of our souls.”
St. Peter Damian
Feast Day: February 21
