The Incorruptibles Are Scary as Hell

Last updated on: February 9, 2016 at 11:49 pm By K. Albert Little

There are some things, as a Catholic, that I’d prefer were kept secret from my Evangelical friends and family. True, it’s bad enough that we have the saints, and Mary, and the secret fraternities of the Da Vinci Code but there are things worse than those already highly embarrassing realities. I’m talking, specifically, about the incorruptibles. Saints who’ve died whose bodies simply refuse to decay. And so we keep them and look at them and cart them around. This week the incorruptible body of... Read more

Lent is Coming, Hide the Kids

Last updated on: February 5, 2016 at 9:19 pm By K. Albert Little

A friend of mine recently commented that she’s weary of the Church calendar this year. I thought: If she’s weary of it then what I’m feeling must be nothing short of malice. Lent? Already? What awful timing. See this past week my long-suffering wife and I began sleep training our seven-month old. Sleep training. Now I know, I know, we have one child, it’s our first go around this particular block, and if I’m going to choose to complain about the sleepless... Read more

Is Protestantism a System Designed to Fail?

Last updated on: January 21, 2016 at 9:24 am By K. Albert Little

If you know anything about my journey towards the Catholic Church you’ll know that it had, in the beginning at least, a lot to do with the authority of the Bible. That’s where it began. After some exposure to the Catholic Church through a podcasting priest from the Netherlands, a Protestant pastor and close friend asked me that fateful question, “What’s more important, tradition or the Bible?” My journey took me to reading a lot of Catholic writers, of looking more closely at... Read more

What Evangelicals Don’t Know About the Rosary

Last updated on: January 17, 2016 at 4:28 pm By K. Albert Little

For all good Evangelicals, myself included, Mary is the ultimate stumbling block on a journey into full Catholic communion. This wasn’t so for the first 1,500 years of Church history. Martin Luther one of the earliest Protestant reformers held strong and fast to Marian doctrine—even doctrine, like her perpetual virginity, which couldn’t be strongly backed up by his sola scriptura theology. As an Evangelical convert to the Catholic Church, I didn’t have such a hard time with Mary. Thankfully. I was... Read more

Godparents Wanted: Apply Within

Last updated on: January 7, 2016 at 11:21 pm By K. Albert Little

I do not like to speak on my wife’s behalf. Her story is her own story and I’ve fastidiously avoided bringing her into the thick of things when I can help it. This is my blog and my journey and if she were to write about hers I’m sure my readership would evaporate. They’d jump ship. Just like that. She’s far more interesting. But, in this case I’ve been duly charged. “Write about it on your blog!” She proposed, gleefully, one... Read more

The New Year’s Resolution Every Catholic Should Be Making

Last updated on: December 30, 2015 at 1:57 pm By K. Albert Little

With the declaration, by Pope Francis, of this year as a special Jubilee Year of Mercy Catholics all over the world are being called to demonstrate what is meant to be that chief Christian virtue: Mercy. And if you, like most of us, are up for adopting a soon-to-be-shamefully-abandoned New Year’s resolution then this is the perfect one for you: have mercy. Have mercy. To say that Christians should be known for their mercy goes, I guess, without saying. Mercy,... Read more

When Jesus Said, “This is my Body,” He Meant It

Last updated on: December 29, 2015 at 11:10 am By K. Albert Little

As a Catholic, I believe that Jesus is really present in the Eucharistic elements. That is to say, I believe that through a genuine miracle, which happens at every Mass, the bread and the wine become Jesus’s real flesh and blood—while still appearing to be bread and wine (and that’s part of the miracle). Does this sound crazy? As a Protestant, I believed that the Lord’s Supper—Communion—was a memorial feast. It was a commemorative ceremony we celebrated as a church or small group of believers to remember Jesus’s... Read more

My First Christmas as a Catholic

Last updated on: December 24, 2015 at 9:05 am By K. Albert Little

I never, for even a second, want to diminish my spiritual journey as a Protestant. It’s been, as they say, fifteen good years. I appreciate every minute of it. It was all a learning experience and I’ve learned a lot. And of course there’s value in where I was—in where I’ve been—the only difference is that I’m finding more value, at least for myself, in where I’m going. That’s, of course, why I’m going there. It’s difficult to move away from something and... Read more

Why Are Demons Afraid of Mary?

Last updated on: March 16, 2018 at 9:43 am By K. Albert Little

Father Gabriele Amorth is a fascinating man. Until very recently, the elderly Italian priest served as one of Rome’s chief exorcists. As an exorcist he’s seen it all. For our benefit, he’s recorded it too in a couple of books called An Exorcist Tells His Story and An Exorcist: More Stories. He’s an interesting guy and I’ve always had a passing interest in the supernatural, even before becoming a Christian, and in the existence of demons, even before my journey into the Catholic Church so... Read more

An Evangelical at the Door of Mercy

Last updated on: December 13, 2015 at 9:06 pm By K. Albert Little

We are a people of the tangible. A people of the here and now and, as much as we try, it’s difficult to imagine ourselves anywhere else. This is, often, how we find ourselves caught up in despair. Or desire. We are of the moment which is why this Advent season of the Church is so incredible: It shoehorns us out of our own ritual and routine and demands we turn our attention to something so much more than ourselves. Something two... Read more