Why I Am Catholic

Views of a new Catholic in an old world, on the joy and inexhaustible meaning found in the Faith.

My Conversion Story


Rembrandt’s The Return of the Prodigal Son

How did I become a Catholic? Long story…
To Be Frank, Part 1, From the US Marines to the Harvard Classics
To Be Frank, Part 2, A Change of Course Thanks to Blaise Pascal
To Be Frank, Part 3, “What the Blazes, Blaise?!”
To Be Frank, Part 4, From Pascal to the Mother of All Projects
To Be Frank, Part 5, “The Imitation of Christ”
To Be Frank, Part 6, “The Imitation of Christ” II
To Be Frank, Part 7, Because of Thomas Merton, OCSO

And the on-going  story of my conversion continues in the Conversion Story file. There’s also the 2BFrank tag, and the rest of the blog.
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It is too true that I who write about the devout life am not myself devout, but most certainly I am not without the wish to become so, and it is this wish which encourages me to teach you. A notable literary man has said that a good way to learn is to study, a better to listen, and the best to teach. And Saint Augustine, writing to the devout Flora, says, that giving is a claim to receive, and teaching a way to learn. -St. Francis de Sales

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