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That so many are still drawn by the fullness of the truth in the Catholic Church despite the present crisis is witness to her identity as “the one true fold” of Christ, and a book like John Beaumont’s offers encouragement and inspiration both to those who have already “come home to Rome,” and to those who are still on that pilgrimage of faith.
English lawyer and author, John Beaumont is a convert collector. Having authored Roads to Rome: A Guide to Notable Converts and The Mississippi Flows into the Tiber: A Guide to Notable American Converts to the Catholic Church, he has now had published The House With a Hundred Gates: Catholic Converts Through the Ages.
Beaumont’s title is gleaned from G.K.Chesterton who observed, “The Church is a house with a hundred gates; and no two men enter at exactly the same angle.” Indeed. As a convert who worked for seven years with the UK-based Saint Barnabas Society (formerly the Converts’ Aid Society), I can affirm that the net of the Catholic Church is cast wide and that the variety of fish is universal. The metaphor is apt since some commentators on the Gospel story of the miraculous draft of fish in John 21 opine that the 153 fish caught in the apostles’ net is the number of known species of fish at the time, and therefore signifies the fact that every type of human being would eventually be caught up in the apostolic net and be hauled (by God’s grace) into the barque of Peter.
John Beaumont’s most recent draft of fish comes from the whole range of Protestant denomination— Pentecostals and Presbyterians, Anglicans and Agnostics, Methodists and more. He includes the famous like Newman and Chesterton and the infamous like Guy Fawkes and American gangster Dutch Schultz. For each of the converts, Mr. Beaumont relates personal background and shares the sacrifices and trials the convert experienced in his Tiber swim, but he also takes the opportunity to discuss the theological, moral, and social issues the convert faced, thus providing plenty of solid apologetic material.
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English lawyer and author, John Beaumont is a convert collector. Having authored Roads to Rome: A Guide to Notable Converts and The Mississippi Flows into the Tiber: A Guide to Notable American Converts to the Catholic Church, he has now had published The House With a Hundred Gates: Catholic Converts Through the Ages.
Beaumont’s title is gleaned from G.K.Chesterton who observed, “The Church is a house with a hundred gates; and no two men enter at exactly the same angle.” Indeed. As a convert who worked for seven years with the UK-based Saint Barnabas Society (formerly the Converts’ Aid Society), I can affirm that the net of the Catholic Church is cast wide and that the variety of fish is universal. The metaphor is apt since some commentators on the Gospel story of the miraculous draft of fish in John 21 opine that the 153 fish caught in the apostles’ net is the number of known species of fish at the time, and therefore signifies the fact that every type of human being would eventually be caught up in the apostolic net and be hauled (by God’s grace) into the barque of Peter.
John Beaumont’s most recent draft of fish comes from the whole range of Protestant denomination— Pentecostals and Presbyterians, Anglicans and Agnostics, Methodists and more. He includes the famous like Newman and Chesterton and the infamous like Guy Fawkes and American gangster Dutch Schultz. For each of the converts, Mr. Beaumont relates personal background and shares the sacrifices and trials the convert experienced in his Tiber swim, but he also takes the opportunity to discuss the theological, moral, and social issues the convert faced, thus providing plenty of solid apologetic material.
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That so many are still drawn by the fullness of the truth in the Catholic Church despite the present crisis is witness to her identity as “the one true fold” of Christ, and a book like John Beaumont’s offers encouragement and inspiration both to those who have already “come home to Rome,” and to...
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