The “Becoming Catholic” blog series is a multi-part, multi-year, bite-size, fact-focused attempt at describing the journey of a lifelong protestant to the Catholic Church. Each post is numbered according to when it was authored, but organized on this page by topic.
Becoming Catholic #2: The “Big ‘C’” Catholic Church in the Church Fathers
Becoming Catholic #11: Which “gospel”? Which “biblical”?
Becoming Catholic #12: Why Acts 15 Led Me to the Catholic Church
Becoming Catholic #15: “To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant”
Becoming Catholic #17: How I Concluded “Scripture Alone” Was False, Even Before I Read Anything Catholic
Becoming Catholic #27: No One in Scripture Interpreted it On Their Own
Becoming Catholic #28: Former Calvinist Theologian and Historian Set out to Disprove the Catholic Church, and Becomes Catholic—The Story of Dr. David Anders
Becoming Catholic #38: Protestantism’s Mormonism Problem
Becoming Catholic #1: The Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist in the Church Fathers
Becoming Catholic #9: The Church Fathers, and the Christian Sacrifice of the Eucharist
Becoming Catholic #13: St. Justin Martyr, the Mass, and the Church’s Early Eucharistic Doctrine
Becoming Catholic #39: The Biblical Roots of Apostolic Succession, Infallibility, and the Indefectibility of the Church, Part 1—When Jesus Began to Reign as King
Becoming Catholic #44: Papal Snapshot—Origen Repents to St. Pope Fabian (mid 200s)
Becoming Catholic #40: Papal Snapshot—Pagan Historian Acknowledges “the higher authority of the bishop of the Eternal City” (c. 355)
Becoming Catholic #41: Papal Snapshot—St. Jerome, and the One True Church Built on the Rock of Peter and His Successors in Rome (c. 376/77)
Becoming Catholic #42: Papal Snapshot—St. Peter Chrysologus: The Pope is Required to Settle Doctrinal Disputes (448)
Becoming Catholic #43: Papal Snapshot—Papal Authority Affirmed in Emperor Justinian’s Civil Code of Law (533-34)
Becoming Catholic #29: Where is the True Church? St. Augustine, Part 1 (Against the Fundamental Epistle of Manichaeus)
Becoming Catholic #31: Where is the True Church? St. Augustine, Part 2 (Of True Religion)
Becoming Catholic #18: What Did the Ancient Church Believe? The Unity and Necessity of the Church for Salvation
Becoming Catholic #21: What Did the Ancient Church Believe? Baptismal Regeneration
Becoming Catholic #22: What Did the Ancient Church Believe? The Catholic Church is the One True Church
Becoming Catholic #19: The Jewish Roots of Catholic Authority, Part 1—Moses and the Priesthood Speak for God
Becoming Catholic #20: The Jewish Roots of Catholic Authority, Part 2—Urim and Thummim
Becoming Catholic #26: The Jewish Roots of Catholic Authority, Part 3—“Apostolic Succession” in the Old Testament
Becoming Catholic #24: Where is the True Church? A Typological Connection Between Ancient Israel and the Catholic Church
Becoming Catholic #34: Jewish Roots of Catholic Authority, Part 4—What Was the Jewish Understanding of Jesus’s Words About “Binding and Loosing”?
Becoming Catholic #7: The Day of Judgment, and Works, Part 1
Becoming Catholic #32: Purgatory in the Bible, Part 1—Purgatory in a Parable of Jesus
Becoming Catholic #30: The Prophecy That Convinced Me the “Apocrypha” Was Part of the Bible
Becoming Catholic #3: Church Authority, and Saint Ignatius the Red Pill, Part 1
Becoming Catholic #5: Church Authority, and Saint Ignatius the Red Pill, Part 2
Becoming Catholic #6: Church Authority, and Saint Ignatius the Red Pill, Part 3
Becoming Catholic #8: Church Authority, and Saint Ignatius the Red Pill, Part 4
Becoming Catholic #10: Church Authority, and Saint Ignatius the Red Pill, Part 5—Roman Finale
Becoming Catholic #33: Family Matters, Part 1—Christ and the Apostles Forbade Divorce and Remarriage
Becoming Catholic #14: When the Church Fathers Described Heresy, it was my Protestantism—#1: St. Athanasius
Becoming Catholic #16: When the Church Fathers Described Heresy, it was my Protestantism—#2: St. Epiphanius of Salamis
Becoming Catholic #37: When the Church Fathers Described Heresy, it was my Protestantism—#3: St. Isidore of Seville
Becoming Catholic #4: A Comedy, on Why a Medieval Jew Became a Medieval Catholic
Becoming Catholic #23: Wicked Shepherds—St. Augustine on Remaining in the One True Church
Becoming Catholic #25: Protestants: “The Church is morally corrupt!” Pope: “Correct. We repent!”
Becoming Catholic #35: Victorian Protestant Scholar Praises the Papacy as the Most Enduring Institution in World History
Becoming Catholic #36: How Protestantism Laid the Foundations of Modern Secularism—Dr. Alan Fimister
Becoming Catholic Quote Archive: The Catholic Church and Faith
Becoming Catholic Quote Archive: The Canon of the Scripture
Becoming Catholic Quote Archive: Apostolic Tradition
Becoming Catholic Quote Archive: Apostolic Succession
Becoming Catholic Quote Archive: The Offices of Bishop, Priest, and Deacon
Becoming Catholic Quote Archive: Baptismal Regeneration
Becoming Catholic Quote Archive: The Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist
Becoming Catholic Quote Archive: The Sacrifice of the Eucharist
Becoming Catholic Quote Archive: The Sacrament of Confirmation
Becoming Catholic Quote Archive: The Sacrament of Confession
Becoming Catholic Quote Archive: Mortal Sin—Christians Can Lose Their Salvation
Becoming Catholic Quote Archive: Intercession of the Saints
Becoming Catholic Quote Archive: Purgatory
Becoming Catholic Quote Archive: Holy Mary, Mother of God, New Eve, Ever-Virgin
Becoming Catholic Quote Archive: Development of Doctrine
Becoming Catholic Study Bank: “Grace” in the New Testament
Becoming Catholic Study Bank: Baptism in the New Testament
Becoming Catholic Study Bank: Justification in the New Testament
Becoming Catholic Study Bank: Church Unity Commanded in the New Testament
Becoming Catholic Study Bank: The Holy Spirit
Becoming Catholic Study Bank: The Kingdom in the New Testament
Becoming Catholic Study Bank: The Ancient Lists and Testimonies of Popes Succeeding from Peter
Becoming Catholic Study Bank: The Kings and Queen Mothers of the Davidic Kingdom in the Old Testament
Becoming Catholic Study Bank: The Davidic Covenant in the New Testament
Becoming Catholic Study Bank: The Parables of Christ