Author: Joshua Charles

I am set to be received into the Catholic Church in July 2019.  I made the decision to convert in February 2018.  I only considered the Catholic Church as a

This blog post is the fifth, and final part of Church Authority, and Saint Ignatius the Red Pill. The individual parts are linked above. Part 1 covered Ignatius’ idea of

As I have outlined, the key catalytic moment when, for the first time, I had to seriously consider the proposition that the Catholic Church is the true Church founded by

This blog post is Part 4 of Church Authority, and Saint Ignatius the Red Pill. The individual parts are linked above. Part 1 covered Ignatius’ idea of Church authority in

Many years before I even consciously considered becoming Catholic, I had many questions about the broadly protestant theologies I was exposed to and took for granted.  As long as I

This blog post is Part 3 of Church Authority, and Saint Ignatius the Red Pill. The individual parts are linked above. Part 1 covered Ignatius’ idea of Church authority in

This blog post is Part 2 of Church Authority, and Saint Ignatius the Red Pill. The individual parts are linked above. In Part 1, I covered Saint Ignatius’ ideas of

This is the story of how a Medieval Jew, the most unlikely of candidates for Christian baptism, became a Christian, despite the best efforts of the clergy—lightly adapted from the

This is a five part series within Becoming Catholic. The individual parts are listed above. I still remember when it happened: it was June, 2017, and my “38 Volume Set”

I never consciously considered becoming Catholic until the summer of 2017. Until then, I had been nurtured as a Christian in an environment where Catholicism was not welcomed, and looked