by Steve Ray on November 19, 2011
The “Hail Mary” of a Protestant is powerful!—( A True Story) A little six-year-old Protestant boy had often heard his Catholic companion reciting the prayer ‘Hail Mary.’ He liked it so much that he copied it, memorized it and would recite it every day. ‘Look, Mummy, what a beautiful prayer,’ he said to his mother [...]
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by Steve Ray on November 10, 2011
BALTIMORE (EWTN News)—A group of religious sisters in Maryland is believed to be the first U.S. Episcopal order to become a Catholic religious community. On Nov. 1, the All Saints Sisters of the Poor professed their perpetual vows at the Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore. Archbishop Edwin O’Brien, apostolic [...]
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by Steve Ray on November 7, 2011
This is a nice story. I include a paragraph to whet your appetite. About a month later it was around midnight and I turned to my wife Mary in bed and asked her what she wanted. Mary said that she didn’t want anything other than to go back to sleep. I insisted that she wanted [...]
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by Steve Ray on October 31, 2011
Was it a death bed conversion? Did he get a glimpse into eternity? Were the curtains of heaven pulled back before his death? What do you think? According to Job’s biological sister, we are told of his final words before death: “Before embarking, he’d looked at his sister Patty, then for a long time at [...]
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by Steve Ray on October 5, 2011
Son of a famous Australian atheist converted to the Catholic Church and tells his story here.
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by Steve Ray on September 23, 2011
Stacy Trasancos Stacy is a Catholic convert from the Baptist tradition. A former chemist, Stacy is now a stay at home mom pursuing a MA in Theology at Holy Apostle’s College and Seminary. I am Catholic, simply, because I am alive. I began conversion in 2004 and entered into Communion with the Catholic Church in [...]
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by Steve Ray on September 21, 2011
Devin Rose Devin Rose is a software engineer and former Atheist. This is his story from Atheist to Baptist to Catholic. I believe and profess all that the Holy Catholic Church teaches and proclaims to be revealed by God. But it was not always so. I grew up secularly. My mother was brought up in [...]
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by Steve Ray on September 19, 2011
Laura Locke Laura is an educator and freelance writer in Calgary, Canada. The road to Catholicism for new converts is as varied as the personalities of converts themselves. Mine came by means of the sublimely cracked perspective of a neurological disorder called Tourette Syndrome. Raised in a mainstream Protestant church, I found myself drawn to [...]
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by Steve Ray on September 16, 2011
Richard Maffeo Richard was born into a Jewish home in 1950. Twenty-two years later, he discovered Jesus is the Jewish Messiah, and served Him in evangelical Protestant churches for more than thirty-two years. In 2005 he was received into the Catholic Church. My movement in 1972 from Jewish faith to Christ was so profound an [...]
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by Steve Ray on September 13, 2011
Brad Schilling After spending 20 years in various Protestant denominations Brad Schilling found his home in the Catholic Church. Brad lives in Bunbury, Western Australia with his wife Marina and their three children. The Beginning Sometime in February 2010 I decided to attend a Catholic Mass. After 20 years of being a Protestant Christian I [...]
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by Steve Ray on September 8, 2011
Marvelous story of a woman who – with great learning and pain – was Mormon but convinced of the Catholic faith. You will love her story. She also provides an Addendum with information about Mormons and how to understand them and share the truth with them. Read her story here. I have several other very [...]
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by Steve Ray on July 31, 2011
Most Rock n’ Rollers end up badly in old age, if they ever get to old age. I spent time again with one this weekend that has a done very well – Dion DiMucci of the Dion and Belmonts from the late 50′s and early 60′s – and beyond. He is famous for Run Around [...]
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by Steve Ray on July 18, 2011
If you like to read Catholic Convert Stories, there are now hundreds of exciting journeys to read. I have hundreds on my Catholic Convert page here and I just found another interesting site with stories from many different religions and traditions. You can see Why I’m Catholic here. Please add your story to the list! [...]
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by Steve Ray on June 12, 2011
Happy Anniversary to us! 17 years ago this Pentecost our family was received into the Catholic Church! Blessed be God! Best decision ever! Thanks to Fr. Ed Fride.
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by Steve Ray on May 28, 2011
An e-mail I received: I have not viewed the video yet, but I am one of 22 converts from Protestantism to Catholicism in 4 years, in a tiny parish in Central California. 18 of the 22 came from the same Protestant church, but honestly we didn’t communicate with one another very much until someone was [...]
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by Steve Ray on May 10, 2011
Below is an interesting YouTube video (really audio) of an Evangelical Radio show in which two Evangelicals discuss why so many Evangelical Protestants are leaving to join the Catholic Church. The host and guest are trying to be honest in the show entitled “Why Evangelicals are Returning to Rome.” Although towards the end of the [...]
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