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Former Protestant Pastor Helps Shepherd Catholic Converts Marcus Grodi's Coming Home Network Focuses on Inquiring Clergy ZANESVILLE, Ohio, OCT. 8, 2003 (Zenit.org).- Every year, about 100 clergy from dozens of denominations make a step toward the Catholic Church by contacting the Coming Home Network International. The network, which has 800-some clergy members who have converted or are still discerning their conversion, connects those inquirers with others from the same background who have converted to Catholicism, and provides them with prayerful, moral and sometimes financial support. Marcus Grodi, who was a Congregationalist and Presbyterian pastor before coming into the Catholic Church...

The Visible Church Was There All Along by Cindy Beck “Lord,” I prayed later that night, “I’ll go wherever You want me to go. Please, just lead me to the truth.” I never imagined that I would one day become Catholic, even when I knew I could no longer be Protestant. Catholicism simply wasn’t an option. When I left Protestantism, I had no idea where I was going. I only knew that there had to be something else. No matter where it led, I had to find the truth. I never dreamed it would be in the last place I...

How Firm a Foundation. By Marcus Grodi Coming home Resources, 544 pages You'd think that if you've read Scott and Kimberly Hahn and Surprised by Truth (and sequels) edited by Patrick Madrid you'd have a pretty good idea how dramatic Protestant conversions to the Catholic Church can be. At least that's what I thought, until I read Marcus Grodi's fictional version. It's a humdinger. The hero is a minister, as was Grodi, only slightly altered for fictional purposes. The tale involves his wife and teenage boys, a fundamentalist fanatic, and the Holy Spirit. Somehow all the intellectual conflicts we have...