Why I Became Catholic: A Timeless Conversion StoryOriginally written as a personal testimony to his own children on why he became a Catholic, this is a thoughtful and timeless conversion story of Sir Joseph Pope written during the early part of the 20th century. Born in 1854 to a family renowned for distinguished service to the Canadian government, Joseph carried on the family tradition as a highly regarded civil servant. Like St. Thomas More, Pope was held in high esteem as a public servant, and he enjoyed the total confidence of prime ministers and governors, all whom sought his advice. He was a prolific author of some two dozen books and pamphlets, including the official biographies of major Canadian historical figures. Amidst this busy public life, Sir Joseph Pope developed a profound spiritual life and a mind always hungry for eternal truth. Raised in a nominal Anglican family, his persistent and courageous search for the fullness of truth and grace finally led him home to the Catholic Church. |
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... received them . The present 1987 edition has been prepared on letter - size ( quarto ) paper through the use of a copying machine , which reduced the size of the original . This second edition is a very limited one also . While the ...
... received into the Catholic Church on the fourteenth of March , 1875 , and had first met my wifeto - be in July of 1883. Obviously , therefore , the only relation between these two events was that of sequence and succession in point of ...
... received that sacrament together . One afternoon the rector called at my father's house , and the whole lot of us were baptized without , so far as I can remember , preliminary instruction of any sort or kind . All I recollect of the ...
... received confirmation at the hands of Bishop Binney of Nova Scotia , in whose diocese Prince Edward Island lay , and shortly afterward I was admitted to the I Holy Communion . The following summer , a mission was preached in St. Peter's ...
... received gladly half a century ago , I hold with equal intellectual assent today . Newman's words exactly fit my case : From the age of fifteen dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion : I know no other religion ; I ...