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My 500-Year Journey from Scotland to Rome

“I had been drawn to the Catholic Church for years but still was not completely sure it was biblically faithful. Would it disappoint us as the Protestant church had? I didn’t know where home was for a Christian who just wanted to love and follow Jesus faithfully and truthfully. While many people are drawn to the Church through reading the Church Fathers and history, I needed to see and touch historical and holy sites. In 2018, I received a generous grant allowing me to journey across Europe to visit the foundations of our faith… The last day of our pilgrimage culminated in taking the Scavi Tour under the altar of St. Peter’s Basilica to see the actual bones of St. Peter. This moving experience confirmed I had found the biblical New Testament Church I had longed to know…”

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Taking Courage: How God Drew Me into the Light of His Church

Alicia Smith |
Agnostic, Anglican & Episcopalian, Atheist/Agnostic, Conversion Stories | 14 Comments

“Learning about Catholicism, after being schooled by Protestants, I felt like I had only been allowed to view little random pieces of incredible artwork. It is only now that I understand the pieces were a single, beautiful masterpiece.” After a rocky childhood, Alicia joined the US Navy, which brought about stability and order in her life. Life in the Navy prepared her for life in an unexpected place: the Catholic Church.

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On Whose Authority?

Father Ray Ryland, Ph.D., J.D. |
Anglican & Episcopalian, Conversion Stories, Uncategorized | 18 Comments

Father Ray Ryland, Ph.D., J.D., is a former minister of the Episcopal Church. In 1963 he was received with his wife, Ruth, and their five children into the Catholic Church. Twenty years later, he was ordained to the priesthood of the Catholic Church, with a dispensation from the rule of celibacy. Currently, he serves as chaplain for Catholics United for the Faith and on the boards of both that apostolate and The Coming Home Network. He is also a regular columnist for The Catholic Answer Magazine, and he serves as an assistant at St. Peter’s Church in Steubenville, Ohio.

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“I wonder what sort of a tale we’ve fallen into?”

Peggy Gibson |
Anglican & Episcopalian, Conversion Stories, Uncategorized | 16 Comments

My story began as a cradle Anglican, which means I have been surrounded by beautiful words of prayer my whole life. As long as I can remember I have come into God’s presence on the Lord’s day praying “Almighty God, unto whom all hearts be open, all desires known and from whom no secrets are hid: cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of thy Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love thee, and worthily magnify thy Holy Name.” Each week we approached Holy Communion praying “Grant us therefore, gracious Lord, so to eat the flesh of thy dear Son Jesus Christ, and to drink his Blood, that our sinful bodies may be made clean by his Body and our souls washed through his most precious Blood, and that we may evermore dwell in him, and he in us” (The Book of Common Prayer).

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A Bible-Believer Becomes Catholic by Believing the Bible

Wesley Vincent Ph.D. |
Baptist, Conversion Stories, Evangelical, Fundamentalist | 86 Comments

“Living with many mutually contradictory doctrines made understanding the faith similar to trying to complete a complex puzzle from a combination of different jigsaw puzzles stirred together.” Evangelical Wesley Vincent noticed that every pastor who preached the Bible seemed to have a different understanding of what it meant to be a follower of Christ.

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