Category: Becoming Catholic

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 his epistles to the Philadelphians and the Smyrnaeans.  Part 2 covered his epistle to the Ephesians.  Part 3 covered his

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 can remember, I’ve always deeply cared about my faith.  I never had a “rebellious” phase where I outright rejected the

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 his epistles to the Philadelphians and the Smyrnaeans.  Part 2 covered his epistle to the Ephesians.  Part 3 (this one)

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 church authority as articulated in his epistles to the Philadelphians and the Smyrnaeans.  In Part 2, I will discuss his

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 “Second Story” of The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, a collection of stories told in 1348 by some bored Florentines seeking

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” of the Church Fathers had finally arrived. I had seen this set for many years, and, being a bibliophile, and

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 upon as a leper (not universally, but frequently). Despite the fact that all the protestant sects I belonged to at