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Moira Noonan: My Conversion Story by In Defense of the Church on Sep 5, 2011Moira Noonan left Catholicism for the New Age in the early 1970s after suffering a crippling accident for which her faith seemed to have no answers. She went on to serve as a minister in the Church of Religious Science for 20 years, mastering such di...

Evangelical Laura Locke Conversion Story by In Defense of the Church on Aug 24, 2011Laura Locke Conversion story from WhyImCatholic.comLaura 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 cra...

Methodist Convert to Catholicism Julie Nicholson by In Defense of the Church on Aug 10, 2011Julie NicholsonSource: Why I'm CatholicJulie is wife, mother and Catholic convert raised in the Methodist church. During her walk of faith she encountered many different Protestant denominations before finally calling the Catholic Church home.Looking...

Evangelical Convert: Richard Maffeo from Why I'm Catholic by In Defense of the Church on Aug 3, 2011Richard Maffeo (source: Why I'm Catholic)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...

Eclectic Convert: Amanda Rose found a Pearl of Great Price by In Defense of the Church on Jul 14, 2011Source: Why I'm CatholicAmanda RoseThis story of conversion is a story of one who longed for God before she understood what she was longing for, who searched for God and for so long he remained hidden from her, but who continued knocking upon the doo...

Mormon Convert to Catholicism: Thomas Smith by In Defense of the Church on Jun 30, 2011Thomas SmithSource: whyimcatholic.comThomas was a former Mormon missionary turned Protestant minister who was received into the Catholic Church in 1996. Thomas lives on his family ranch in southeastern Idaho.Born a 6th generation Mormon (LDS), I was...

New Alaska Catholics overcame challenges on journey into the church by In Defense of the Church on May 10, 2011Nicholas Myhre is baptized at the April 23 Easter Vigil Mass by Father Jaime Mencias at St. Michael Church in Palmer. Photo by Joel DavidsonBy RASHAE OPHUS JOHNSONCatholicAnchor.orgThis Easter the Archdiocese of Anchorage welcomed 83 converts in...

Atheist Convert: Devin Rose by In Defense of the Church on May 7, 2011Source: Why I am Catholic?Follow them in FacebookVisit Devin Rose's BlogDevin 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 pr...

Newt Gingrich: Why I Became Catholic by In Defense of the Church on Apr 28, 2011Source: National Catholic Register - I am often asked when I chose to become Catholic. However, it is more truthful to say that over the course of several years I gradually became Catholic and then decided one day to accept the faith I had already co...

National Catholic Reporter: Father of eight gives up job to become Catholic by In Defense of the Church on Apr 21, 2011From the National Catholic Reporter:It’s a brave decision for the Ian Hellyer to give up his job when he has to provide for eight children and his wife is pregnant with the couple’s ninth child.But Hellyer is losing no sleep over his decision. He...