David returns to the program and discusses with Marcus some of the thoughts of his conversion process. Citing the issues of Authority and the Eucharist as two of the key
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Leo Brown, radio personality in Lexington, KY, shares the story of his improbable transition from the rock and roll culture into Catholic radio apologetics. Leo had a death-defying experience which
New Orleans native, Randy Ory, speaks of growing up in Louisiana – a place very Catholic in its culture and its practice. Randy attended Catholic schools through twelfth grade and
Growing up in the culture of Mormonism, Dr. Richard Sherlock, was a thinker who loved the great questions of life. It propelled him to study philosophy in college and then
Over the next few years of talking to [my friend] about what he was studying, I slowly began to understand the TULIP doctrines and I realized that I didn’t actually agree with any of them. As a good Protestant, I knew that I could question every tenet of the faith that I had been brought up in and still be a good Christian, so as I gradually began to doubt Calvinism, I never questioned my relationship with God, nor His love for me.
Dr. Steven Smith grew up in a loving, moral Catholic home in Chicago in a predominantly Irish Catholic neighborhood. He admits that though weekly mass attenders, the family did not
I was bored with the Catholic Church! All I did was daydream through Mass and my catechism classes. When I was 10, my parents stopped going to Mass, but my father would still drop off my sister and I at the church.
As I began to describe my works-laden justification, Mr. Pharis told me bluntly, “You’re not getting into heaven.” … He got my attention. I was not saved!
Frank Cronin spent his life through his first year in college in Catholic educational institutions, though, for the most part, it was a cultural rather than spiritual endeavor. Working and
Don was raised in Maine in a Catholic home on a potato farm. The family attended Mass faithfully but there was no prayer at home. In high school and college,
Marcus welcomes Vaughn Kohler, a former evangelical protestant, to the program. Vaughn’s earliest memories are living in South Bend, IN in a family secure in its protestant faith amidst a
Even as a sophomore I knew that I wanted to attend Notre Dame. Its Catholic identity wasn’t really a factor at all; its academic reputation, quality of student life (as reported by Princeton Review), and the memories of my first visit there drove my decision. I didn’t know what to make of Catholicism at all. One of the essays on the Notre Dame application dealt with a “spiritual topic” of our choosing. I chose to write about my impressions of Siddhartha by Herman Hesse.
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