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November 2017

November 08, 2017

Is Catholicism Christian or Not? (vs. James White): Pt. 5

Part V: My 36-Page Second Counter-Reply (15 May 1995) and Mr. White's One-Page "Reply" (10...

November 07, 2017

Is Catholicism Christian or Not? (vs. James White): Pt. 4

Part IV: Mr. White's 17-Page Second Counter-Reply (4 May 1995) My book (2013, 395 pages; available for as...

November 07, 2017

Is Catholicism Christian or Not? (vs. James White): Pt. 3

Part III: My 16-Page First Counter-Reply (22 April 1995) My book (2013, 395 pages; available for as...

November 06, 2017

Is Catholicism Christian or Not? (vs. James White): Pt. 2

Part II: Mr. White's 7-Page Initial Reply (6 April 1995) My book (2013, 395 pages;...

November 06, 2017

Is Catholicism Christian or Not? (vs. James White): Pt. 1

Part I: Introduction and My Initial Form Letter (23 March 1995) My book (2013, 395...

November 05, 2017

My Conversion: Apathy, Occult, Evangelicalism, & Catholicism (Pt. 10)

Part Ten: Thomas Howard & Liturgy, My New Catholic Apologetics Career, and the Long-Awaited Fulfillment...

November 03, 2017

My Conversion: Apathy, Occult, Evangelicalism, & Catholicism (Pt. 9)

Part Nine: The Slow But Inevitable Paradigm Shift, Fr. John A. Hardon, and Another View...

October 2017

October 06, 2017

My Conversion: Apathy, Occult, Evangelicalism, & Catholicism (Pt. 8)

Part Eight: Bombshell and Paradigm Shift: Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman's Essay on the Development of...

October 05, 2017

My Conversion: Apathy, Occult, Evangelicalism, & Catholicism (Pt. 7)

Part Seven: Ecclesiology (the Church), the "Protestant Myth" of Church History, and My Vehement Opposition to...

October 04, 2017

My Conversion: Apathy, Occult, Evangelicalism, & Catholicism (Pt. 6)

Part Six: Pro-Life Rescue Movement, Letter to Karl Keating, My Ecumenical Gatherings, & the First...

October 03, 2017

My Conversion: Apathy, Occult, Evangelicalism, & Catholicism (Pt. 5)

Part Five: Collapse of My Protestant Ministry: Disillusionment and the End of One Chapter of...

September 2017

September 25, 2017

My Conversion: Apathy, Occult, Evangelicalism, & Catholicism (Pt. 4)

Part Four: Apologetics, Abundant Evangelical Blessings, and Protestant Evangelistic Campus Ministry (1983-1989) This is the...

September 18, 2017

My Conversion: Apathy, Occult, Evangelicalism, & Catholicism (Pt. 3)

Part Three: Evangelical "Born-Again" (?) Experience, More Lukewarmness, and Personal Revival (1977-1982) This is the...

September 15, 2017

My Conversion: Apathy, Occult, Evangelicalism, & Catholicism (Pt. 2)

Part Two: Nature Mysticism, Romanticism, Bible Movies, and the "Great Depression" (1968-1977) This is the...

September 14, 2017

My Conversion: Through Apathy, Occult, & Evangelicalism to Catholicism

Part One: Nominal Methodism, Occult, and the Seeds of a Serious Christian Commitment (1958 - early 1970s)...

August 2017

August 12, 2017

Catholic Conversion: Classic Analyses (Chesterton, Belloc, Pelikan)

George Bernard Shaw, Hilaire Belloc, & G. K. Chesterton [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] *****...

August 06, 2017

My Catholic Conversion (Radio Interview w Al Kresta)

My very good friend John McAlpine (left), sponsoring my reception into the Catholic Church on...

August 03, 2017

Dialogue w Friendly Atheist #1: My Pagan / Occultic Period

+ Circumstances and Factors Regarding my Evangelical Conversion in 1977 at Age 18 and Catholic...

June 2017

June 16, 2017

My Two Conversions: Interview with Spanish Journalist Itxu Díaz

Yours truly on 7-30-79: my 21st birthday (back before the eternal mustache). *** (3-31-11) ***...

May 2017

May 02, 2017

Catholic Converts’ Qualms: Mariology, Formal Worship, Etc.

St. Vitus Cathedral, Prague. Photo by "kirkandmimi" (9-29-16) [Pixabay / CC0 public domain] *** (2-11-04;...

March 2017

March 18, 2017

James White’s Ten Questions for “Romanist” Converts Answered

St. Peter's Basilica and that old Tiber River that converts have to cross. Photograph by...

February 2017

February 09, 2017

Why I Returned to the Catholic Church (Al Kresta)

. . . Including a Searching Examination of Various Flaws and Errors in the Protestant...

January 2017

January 05, 2017

My Nature-Mystic, Occultic, Practical Atheist Period (1967-1977)

Yours truly: c. March 1976: senior in high school, about a year before my evangelical...

January 05, 2017

Am I a “Protestantizing” Catholic (Formerly “Catholicizing” Protestant)?

(7-24-08) ***** This theme has come up several times. It is becoming almost a mantra:...

June 2016

June 10, 2016

150 Razones por las que soy Católico

Presentando 300 evidencias bíblicas que favorecen al Catolicismo 150 Reasons Why I am a Catholic: Featuring...

May 2016

May 18, 2016

My Catholic Conversion in a Nutshell

With my lovely wife Judy in October 1989: our fifth anniversary, and exactly one year...

April 2016

April 05, 2016

My Supposed “Hybrid” Post-Conversion Faith

"Neither Fish Nor Fowl" Venetian Carnival Mask. Photo by "gnuckx": 30 May 2010 [Flickr

January 2016

January 18, 2016

Augustine’s “Confessions”: Model for Conversion Stories

(6-10-09)* * * * * 1) St. Augustine critiqued many belief-systems and practices in his...

January 12, 2016

C. S. Lewis’ Belfast Childhood and Contra-Catholicism

J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973): author of Lord of the Rings and good friend of...

January 12, 2016

Epistemology of My Catholic Conversion

+ My (Protestant) Letter to Karl Keating in 1990 / How I Became an Apologist With...

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