Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to Catholicism
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The well-known and very popular Catholic couple, Scott and Kimberly Hahn, have been constantly travelling and speaking all over North America for the last few years about their conversion to the Catholic Church. Now these two outstanding Catholic apologists tell in their own words about the incredible spiritual journey that led them to embrace Catholicism. Scott Hahn was a Presbyterian minister, the top student in his seminary class, a brilliant Scripture scholar, and militantly anti-Catholic ... until he reluctantly began to discover that his "enemy" had all the right answers. Kimberly, also a top-notch theology student in the seminary, is the daughter of a well-known Protestant minister, and went through a tremendous "dark night of the soul" after Scott converted to Catholicism. Their conversion story and love for the Church has captured the hearts and minds of thousands of lukewarm Catholics and brought them back into an active participation in the Church. They have also influenced countless conversions to Catholicism among their friends and others who have heard their powerful testimony. Written with simplicity, charity, grace and wit, the Hahns' deep love and knowledge of Christ and of Scripture is evident and contagious throughout their story. Their love of truth and of neighbor is equally evident, and their theological focus on the great importance of the family, both biological and spiritual, will be a source of inspiration for all readers.
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This book is a marvelous testimony of the search for the truth that the Roman Catholic Church entails. Scott and Kmberly Hahn writes their struggles in search of the truth as two theology students and presbyterians. The solar fide and sola scripture beliefs are two of the initial blocks to their movement towards the Catholic Church. The authors explain marvelously how the Bible doesn't support those two cornerstone beliefs of the Refirmation and actually supports the two doctrines of the Catholic Church regarding these two points in Reformation, which are respectively, salvation by grace (faith with loving works) and the complementarity between Holy Scriptures and Tradition. We are invited to follow the Hahns' doubts and prayers as they move from Protestantism towards Catholic truth.
Besides the sola fide and scripture, they also argument scripturally the reality of transubstantiation, the devotion to Virgin Mary, the communion of saints, and the reality of purgatory. Those arguments are soundly made and corroborate the beauty and truth of the Catholic doctrine.
Finally, they argument the importance for Catholic to know their faith, through the Catechism, and more importantly to attentive prayer and reading/memorizing of the Scriptures. Rome Sweet Home is a testimony of the strength of the truth and how through God's grace, it leads univocally to Catholic Church.
Short Review: A memoir of a couple's conversion from Presbyterian to Roman Catholic. This was recommended by a friend that has recently converted as well. It is a helpful memoir that speaks of the pain of rejection of by Protestant friends and family as well as demythologizing some of the areas that Protestants often misunderstand Catholic theology.
My longer review is on my blog (about 1000 words) at http://bookwi.se/rome-sweet-home-our-journey-to-catholicism-by-scott-and-kimberly-hahn/
