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How Being a Baptist Prepared Me to be a Good Catholic

Paul McCusker |
Baptist, Conversion Stories | 27 Comments

by Paul McCusker. Frankly, I doubt I would be much of a Catholic now without the benefit of all I’d been taught by Protestants as I travelled this way. I know that had I followed my father’s lead as a Catholic I wouldn’t be Catholic at all. (For him, it was a cultural identity, something handed down to him like an old coat he didn’t really want – if even that.) Any spark of faith in my life was fanned by my very-Protestant mother, faithful relatives and, in my formative years, the good people at Grace Baptist Church in my hometown.

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I Did It Afraid!

Cheryl Ann Masaitis-Spychaj |
Conversion Stories, Evangelical, Non-Denominational, Reverts to the Catholic Faith | 6 Comments

Cheryl Ann, who dreamed of being a missionary and mother of many children, has felt the hand of God throughout her whole life. Facing the crisis of scandal in the Catholic Church, she left to become an Evangelical Christian. An unexpected turn of events awakened a longing desire for Jesus in the Eucharist, which brought her home to the Church of her youth.

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From Calvin to Catholicism

Brian Besong |
Calvinist, Conversion Stories, Presbyterian & Reformed, Uncategorized | 4 Comments

Intellectually, I had a strong “faith” in the tenets of Protestantism, particularly as they were expressed in the Calvinist tradition. Yet Calvinism excused my sin as something God Himself did not see, since, so I believed, the righteousness of Christ had been imputed to me because of my genuine faith, covering over my sins so that He was blind to them, at least insofar as my salvation was concerned.

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The Tiber: Neither Too Wide, Nor Too Deep

James L. Papandrea, M.Div., Ph.D. |
Conversion Stories, Evangelical, Fundamentalist, Methodist, Uncategorized, United Methodist | 7 Comments

It was my study of the Church Fathers that ignited within me the dormant flame of Catholicism. As many others who have gone before me found, one cannot study the history of the early Church without realizing that many Protestant doctrines — sola Scriptura, for example — were an invention of the Protestant reformation and do not actually reflect the understanding of the Church Fathers, let alone the Apostles. I also realized that the Catholic understanding of the Eucharist is consistent with the way the sacrament has been understood from the beginning.

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