Protestant school, Catholic convert: One student’s journey to the Church

Growing up, Matthew Das loved learning about theology. His parents, both devout Presbyterians, frequently talked about their beliefs at home.
When Das arrived at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia, for college, he was excited to converse with and debate his fellow Protestants about Christian theology at the evangelical school.
He was not expecting, however, to fall in love with Catholic theology and eventually enter the Church.
“My dad was an elder at our church and so I always loved talking to the elders and my pastors about Christianity and its history,” Das said. “I became very involved in apologetics; that was my thing. I love apologetics. I love formal reasoning. I loved all of it, but I was very Protestant.”
Then he met Seth Bauer, former president of the university’s chapter of the Thomistic Institute, who invited him to come to an event that the group hosted. The two quickly became good friends.

“We both had a similar passion to try to bring other Christians to understanding more about their faith, taking it a bit more seriously,” Das said. “Our friendship grew out of going to Thomistic Institute events and just enjoying the speakers and conversations.”

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