Catholic Conversion Stories

There are many people just like you who have converted to Catholicism. Young people, old people, male and female, from many different denominations (and religions), lay people and clergy — all have personal stories of their journey.

In the table below, you can go directly to some wonderful conversion stories. If you would like to view a subset, just type text to match into the search box.

Be sure to explore each author’s blog and follow them as their journey continues to unfold. We are happy to have you, welcome!

Blog	URL	Author	Previously	Gender	Birth Decade	First Post	Joined	Country
A Catholic Newbie	View	Lyn Mettler	new age	female	1970	August 20, 2012	2013	US
a fresh Catholic perspective	View	David L. Gray / aka Yoseph Miryam Daviyd	Protestant	male	1970	August 18, 2010	2006	US
A Funny Thing Happened	View	Courtney Davis	Jewish	female	1940	September 17, 2007	2007	US
A Latin Catholic in the Byzantine Rite	View	J. Patrick Cullen	revert	male	1970	November 18, 2008		US
A Shower of Roses	View	Sara Boyle	Church of Christ	female	1970	June 27, 2008	~1995	US
A Spiritual Journey	View	David	Presbyterian	male	1930	September 17, 2009	1960	US
A Star of Hope	View	JoAnna	Lutheran (ELCA)	female	1980	June 13, 2009	2003	US
A Triumph and a Tragedy	View	Jimmy Akin	Evangelical	male	1960		1992	US
Accepting Abundance	View	Stacy Trasancos	Baptist	female	1960	June 1, 2010	2006	US
Agnes Day	View	Katherine	Episcopalian	female	1970	December 30, 2010	1995	US
Almost Not Catholic	View	Brent Stubbs	Pentecostal preacher	male	1980	June 30, 2009	2008	US
Always Jason	View	Jason	Protestant	male	1960	August 19, 2003	2005	US
Answering the Call	View	Kelly	Protestant	female	1970	November 21, 2007	2008	US
Apocalypsis	View	Michael	revert	male	1950	June 23, 2007	2006	US
Ascending Mount Carmel	View	Jason (The Idler)	Adventist	male	1980	November 26, 2011	2012	Canada
Bread from Heaven	View	Pam Forrester	Evangelical	female	1950		1999	US
Brett Farley	View	Brett Farley	Southern Baptist	male	1970	October 11, 2011	2011	US
Building my Catholic Home	View	Anne	Protestant	female	1980	October 4, 2010
Called to Communion	View	multiple	Reformed confessional	male			various
Canterbury Tales	View	Taylor Marshall	Anglican priest	male	1970	December 18, 2005	2006	US
Caring Catholic Convert	View	Jenna Pope	Protestant	female	1950	December 25, 2008	2009	US
Carrots for Michaelmas	View	Haley	Protestant	female	1980	September 29, 2009	2010	US
Catholic Boy Richard	View	Richard Evans	Evangelical LGBT	male	1950	November 26, 2011	2005 (returned)	US
Catholic by Grace	View	Denise Bossert	Presbyterian	female	1960	December 20, 2008	2005	US
Catholic With A Vengeance	View	Rachel Marie Gohlman	Evangelical	female	1980	December 14, 2010	2008	US
CF Family	View	Allison	Assemblies of God	female	1970	January 20, 2011	2003	US
Clan Donaldson	View	Cari Donaldson	Presbyterian	female	1970	January 8, 2008	2006	US
Confessions of an Underground Catholic	View	Clare	Methodist	female	1990	April 12, 2011	2011	US
Consecrated Housewife	View	Amy	Presbyterian	female	1980	June 29, 2012	2011	US
Contemplating Christian	View	K.H.	Protestant	female	1980	October 17, 2005	2006	US
Conversion Diary	View	Jennifer Fulwiler	atheist	female	1970	August 10, 2005	2007	US
Convert Journal	View	George Sipe	Protestant	male	1950	January 4, 2010	2010	US
Convert Man	View	James Kautz	Free Methodist	male	1970	August 23, 2005	1998	Canada
Crossed the Tiber	View	Russ Rentler	Evangelical	male	1960	April 27, 2006	2004	US
Daniel Undem	View	Daniel Undem	Lutheran	male	1980	September 28, 2011	2011	US
Daughter of Glory	View		Evangelical	female	1980	July 1, 2011	2011	US
David Warren Online	View	David Warren	Anglican	male	1960	September 11, 2001	2003	Canada
De Cura Animarum	View	Fr. Jeffrey Steel	Anglican priest	male	1970	August 11, 2007	2009	UK
Deeny's Simple Joys	View	Deana Hall	Protestant	female	1960	June 6, 2008	2007	US
Defenders of the Catholic Faith	View	Steve Ray	Baptist	male	1950	March 30, 2004	1994	US
Deus Nobiscum	View	Norm	Evangelical (Cru)	male	1980	October 21, 2007	2009	US
Domesticity & Doctrine	View	Erika	Fundamentalist	female	1980	September 17, 2010	2009	US
Doubting Thomist Art & Faith	View	Gregory Watson	Pentecostal	male	1980	November 6, 2009	2004	Canada
Edward Feser	View	Edward Feser	revert / atheist	male	1970	September 1, 2008	2001 (returned)	US
Eutychus Fell	View		Methodist		1960	March 8, 2004	2005	US
Evangelical to Catholic	View	Anthony	Evangelical	male	1980	June 24, 2012	2012	US
Faith of a Convert	View	Molly		female	1980	May 19, 2008	2008	US
Fiat Volvntas Tua	View	Father Joseph	Protestant	male	1960	June 8, 2009		Philippines
First Comes Love	View	Amy	Reformed	female	1970	June 4, 2007	2002	US
Fishers of Men	View	Randy	Pentecostal	male	1980	July 22, 2011	2011	US
Following Jesus	View	Nate Johnson	Pentecostal	male	1980	December 3, 2010	2011	US
Forget The Roads	View	Renée Lin	Evangelical	female	1950	August 31, 2012	2003	US
From Gangland to Promised Land	View	John Pridmore	revert	male		July 10, 2008		Ireland
Full Circle	View		Protestant	male	1970	July 11, 2004	2004	US
Garden of Holiness	View	Christie Martin	new age / neopagan	female	1970	March 27, 2009
Grateful Convert	View	Kevin Lowry	Presbyterian	male	1960	April 3, 2011	1992	US
Growing Up	View	Karen	Methodist	female	1980	April 20, 2005	2007	US
Happy Catholic	View	Julie Davis	atheist	female	1970	May 2, 2004	2000	US
Heart Shaped Stone	View	Kortni	none	female	1980	March 14, 2011	2011	US
Hope - Pray - Trust	View	Karen	Presbyterian	female	1980	February 12, 2010	2010	US
In His Time God Makes All Things Beautiful	View	Julie Nicholson	Methodist	female	1970	March 9, 2011	2009	US
In Hoc Signo Vinces!	View	Thomas Kennedy	Presbyterian	male	1980	October 19, 2008	2009	US
Instinctive Philosophies	View	Rebekah Durham Hart	Methodist	female	1980	January 4, 2012	2006	US
just another day of Catholic pondering	View	Sarah Reinhard	atheist	female	1970	May 26, 2006	2001	US
just showing up	View	Brianna Heldt	Evangelical	female	1980	April 1, 2005	2011	US
Kayla's the Nun-Fund Blog	View	Kayla Garry	atheist	female	1980	October 30, 2010	2006	US
Lattes & Rainy Days	View	Kirsten Michelle	Evangelical	female	1980	November 19, 2006	2010	US
Life - here, there and everywhere	View	Lori Miller	Baptist	female	1970	July 30, 2008	1997	US
Little Catholic Bubble	View	Leila Miller	revert	female	1960	April 3, 2010		US
Little Steps Along The Way	View	Amanda Rose Kozlowski	varied	female	1960	October 18, 2008		US
Little Toe in the Tiber	View	Rachel	Episcopalian	female	1950	April 13, 2007	2009	US
Look! A Black Catholic!	View	LT Horton	agnostic	female	1980	May 6, 2012	2007	US
Major Change	View	Keith Major	Protestant missionary	male	1970	May 1, 2008	2010	US
Marching Orders	View	Carl Betts	Baptist	male	1970	October 2, 2009	2008	US
Martha's Heart	View	Stephanie Englelman	Methodist	female	1980	July 17, 2008	2005	US
Moved By Grace	View	Katie Plato	Baptist	female	1980	March 11, 2011	2011	US
Musings of a Catholic Mom	View	Sharon	Baptist	female	1970	January 1, 2009	1996	US
My Catholic Conversion	View		Church of Christ	male	1960	March 1, 2007	2005	US
My Everyday Life	View	Janice	Protestant	female	1970	September 6, 2006		US
My Journey into the Catholic Church	View	Judith McRae	Protestant	female	1960		2001	Canada
My Journey Into the Catholic Faith	View	Annabel	Protestant	female	1960	September 15, 2005	2006	US
My Silent Journey	View	Jessica	Pentecostal	female	1980	September 23, 2008	2009	US
New Christendom	View	David Meyer	PCA Presbyterian	male	1970	June 15, 2010		US
New Skeptics	View	Paul	Southern Baptist	male	1960	March 22, 2010	2011	US
Objets D'artagnan	View	Michael McCleary	Protestant	male	1960	January 2, 2007	2006	US
Of Butterfly Wings	View	Zanne	Baptist	female	1980	April 23, 2011	2011	US
One Foot In Front of the Other	View		Protestant	female	1970	March 22, 2007	2007
Reconnecting to the Truth	View	Susie Melkus	Protestant	female	1970	May 31, 2006	2004	US
Seward's Folly	View	Heide Seward	Episcopalian	female	1960	November 9, 2007	2007	US
Sh'muel	View	Steven	Jewish / Protestant	male	1980	March 13, 2009	2009	US
Speak the Truth in Love	View	Randy	Calvinist pastor's son	male	1960	May 28, 2010	2003	Canada
spikenard	View	Karen Williams	LCMS Lutheran	female	1960	September 23, 2008	1996	US
St. Joseph's Vanguard	View	Devin Rose	atheism / Evangelical	male	1970	May 24, 2005	2001	US
Standing on my Head	View	Fr. Dwight Longenecker	Anglican priest	male	1950	September 25, 2006	1995	US
Sunshine Daisies Butter Mellow	View	Lexie Amann	Protestant	female	1980	July 10,2011	2010	US
Taste and See	View	Kathleen Laplante	revert	female	1960	April 19, 2010		US
Tending to Truth	View	Brooke	Presbyterian	female	1980	June 22, 2008	2007	US
That Married Couple	View	Elizabeth Brunner	Disciples of Christ	female	1980	December 4, 2008	2009	US
The Back of the World	View	Ryan McLaughlin	Protestant	male	1980	February 9, 2012	2012	US
The Catholic Life	View	Stephanie	Church of Christ	female	1980	August 10, 2006	2002	US
The Catholic Sojourner	View	Todd	Southern Baptist	male	1970	July 2, 2010	1999	US
The Clan of Mahlou	View	Elizabeth Mahlou	atheist	female	1950	August 8, 2009		US
The Curt Jester	View	Jeffrey Miller	atheist	male	1950	July 27, 2002	1999	US
The Dawn Patrol	View	Dawn Eden	Jewish	female	1960	February 3, 2002	2006	US
The Devout Life	View	Mindy Goorchenko	Evangelical	female	1980	April 12, 2010	2009	US
The Divine Life	View	Eric Sammons	Evangelical	male	1970	January 30, 2009	1993	US
The Easter People	View	Michael Goodwin	Evangelical	male	1980	March 20, 2009	2011	US
The Fellowship of Catholic Ex-Jehovah's Witnesses	View	Kathy Schwehm	revert / Jehovah's Witnesses	female	1960		2003	US
The Grass is Greener on the Catholic Side	View	Katherine Lynn	Protestant	female	1980	April 13, 2012	2008	US
The Heart of St. Gianna	View	Vivien Betland	Baptist	female	1980	October 15, 2011	2012	US
The Kid Sister of Blessed Imelda	View	Anne	Baptist	female	1970	October 21, 2005	2006
The Orant	View	Billy Kangas	Protestant pastor	male	1980	November 1, 2007	2013	US
The Rainey View	View	Serena Rainey	Pentecostal, before that various	female	1960	October 22, 2011	2008	US
The Recovered Catholic	View	Christina	revert	female	1980	May 24, 2012	2012 (returned)	US
The Rest of the Way	View	Leona Choy	Evangelical missionary	female	1920	July 28, 2008	2005	US
The Roman Road	View	Jason and Nikki	Evangelical	couple	1970	July 17, 2011	2011	US
The Thin Veil	View	Brandon Vogt	Methodist	male	1980	June 9, 2007	2008	US
The Truth About the Catholic Church	View	David	Southern Baptist	male	1970	October 15, 2010	1996	US
This Catholic Journey	View	Amber	Protestant	female	1970	August 2, 2006	2007	US
This Journey of My Life	View	Ciska	Evangelical	female	1980	June 6, 2006	2011	Netherlands
Thoughts from a once fallen away Catholic	View	Michael Luvara	revert	male	1970	December 19, 2010
Transitus Tiber	View	Kim	Lutheran	female	1980	April 16, 2006	2006	US
Ukok's Place	View	Deborah	Protestant	female	1960	July 15, 2004	2004	UK
Una Sancta	View	Tom Hunt	Protestant tenured professor	male	1950	February 2, 2007	2000
Unequally Yoked	View	Leah Libresco	atheist	female	1990	June 2, 2010	2012	US
VaughnKohler.com	View	Vaughn Kohler	Evangelical pastor	male	1970	February 10, 2010	2012	US
Veritas Lux Mea	View	Jusin	Protestant	male		November 7, 2010	2010	Australia
Vocation Diary	View	Jeffery Cann (a/k/a cinhosa)	Protestant	male	1970	June 1, 2002	2000	US
Waiting in Joyful Hope	View	Todd	revert	male	1970	October 24, 2003	2002	US
What Wondrous Love Is This	View	Emily	High Presbyterian	female	1980	April 7, 2010	2012	US
Year of Grace	View	David Schutz	Lutheran Pastor	male	1960	April 23, 2000	2003	Australia
Young, Evangelical, and Catholic	View	Brantly Millegan	Evangelical	male	1980	January 9, 2010	2010	US

Please Help

The above table is constantly updated and your input is sincerely appreciated. Please let me know if you find any errors, blogs that are no longer available or know of any blog that should be added.

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Other Sources

The entries in the above table are, for the most part, blogs. The authors provide more than just their conversion stories! Read all about their faith journeys and follow them as their futures unfold.

There are also some great non-blog sources of conversion stories on-line:

Wikipedia also publishes an interesting list of “historic individuals” who have converted – List of people who converted to Catholicism.

Reading List

Not everything is on the web! There are many fine books written by Catholic converts explaining in detail their author’s background and reasoning for joining the Church. Here is a sampling: