Albert Little is a Catholic convert, husband, and full-time dad. In his spare time he reads books, looks at birds through binoculars, and blogs at The Cordial Catholic.
I first met Jesus at the age of fifteen. As a teenager, I “accepted Christ” and began to live as best a Christian life as I could muster. And it was great. I was happy as an Evangelical Protestant. I hadn’t rejected Catholicism, I didn’t know much about...
When I decided to get serious about becoming a Catholic I phoned up the Catholic church closest to my house. I made the cardinal mistake of thinking they were all the same. After all, at that point in my faith journey I’d already been intellectually converted to the truth...
There are lots of reasons why I decided, as an otherwise happy Evangelical Protestant, to become a Roman Catholic. Among these reasons were aesthetic and spiritual appeals—the beauty of the liturgy and the plethora of centuries old spiritual practices—and these were, indeed, powerful motivators. But alongside the sometimes...
As a Protestant convert to Catholicism whose journey culminated at the Easter Vigil earlier this year, I have some experience, oddly enough, in how to become a Catholic. For me, it was a particular, miraculous journey that I’ve been writing about for a few months now. For me, I...
I am a recovering Evangelical. I became a Catholic this year at the Easter Vigil. I’ve been attending Mass, every Sunday, since I began RCIA (the training wheels program for non-Catholics) and all told, I’ve been being Catholic for about nine months. Precisely the time it takes to...
As a Catholic, I believe that Jesus is really present in the Eucharistic elements. That is to say, I believe that through a miracle the bread and the wine become Jesus’ real flesh and blood—while still appearing to be bread and wine (and that’s part of the miracle)...
