[WindMinstrel]

Catholic convert here, but I'm not the only convert on Free Republic, I'm happy to say.

Nope, not by a long shot. Made my first communion on Easter Sunday 1999, after 8 years of fighting God and man over it. What a long, strange trip it's been!

So, converts, why did you join the Church? With me it was through lots of study and prayer. I swam the Tiber after a long, annoying (to other people) time as an evangelical. How 'bout y'all?

[Rum Tum Tugger]

So, converts, why did you join the Church?

I could write a book, but I'll make it short.

Like most Protestants, I lived in a world of lies and ignorance regarding the Catholic Church. But one day, I decided to find the truth for myself. Once I started learning what the Catholic Church was really about, there was no holding me back. I had to become a Catholic.

Now, of course, I realize that it was Christ's grace and the Holy Spirit that was leading me to real Christianity. The Lord has done a lot for me, but leading me to the Catholic Church tops it all.

[AKA Elena]

California Cradle Catholic -- 12 years of Dominican Sisters (Adrian, Michigan and Mission San Jose) -- Raised in Carmelite Parish ... sister and best friend of a Sister of Mount Carmel. Consummately Conservative and Consummately PRO-LIFE from conception to natural death and a "practitioner" of our Faith.

"Into" the Archangels -- "raised" in the family atmosphere and parish of St. Raphael" -- high school at St Michael's Girls High. My deceased husband attended our parish school and functions, as well -- and Mount Carmel High School (once famous, now defunct).

The Brown Scapular, Our Lady of Fatima and the Rosary -- and St. Dominic's "ladies" with their motto "Veritas" are imminently ingrained in me.

[RooRoobird14]

Hi Windminstrel--another Catholic convert here. After being a non-denominational protestant all my life, I married a Catholic man, & I ended up converting. I'm very happy I did--it feels like after many, many years, I'm finally, really, finally home.

[B-Chan]

Ex-Lutheran, in-process convert here...

[nina0113]

So, converts, why did you join the Church?

Three Easters ago, I was just sitting quietly in the back of the Baptist Church, minding my own business, when God laid it on me to become Catholic. I drug my heels a couple of months, but then started attending Mass & signed up for RCIA that fall. That class was a disaster, but I found another & was received into the church two Easters ago.