108: Would You Still Convert to Catholicism?
The Art of Catholic with Matthew Leonard
Matthew Leonard
4.9 • 831 Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2020
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
The Catholic Church is facing a lot of serious difficulties. But should the current problems discourage conversion? Join Matthew Leonard and EWTN morning host Matt Swaim in a conversation about Matt's winding road to Catholicism and an honest discussion of where the Church stands today.
Matt's in the thick of all the news on a daily basis because of his radio show. He's also constantly dealing with potential converts through his work at the Coming Home Network, so his is a very interesting take.
For cradle Catholics, it's a unique look into the Evangelical world. For converts (or potential converts), it's a stroll down memory lane. But at the end of the day, it's a clarion call for each of us to take a hard look in the mirror.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the art of Catholic. |
| 0:07.0 | Love is patient and kind. |
| 0:17.3 | Love is not jealous or boastful. |
| 0:19.3 | It is not arrogant or rude. |
| 0:21.4 | Love does not insist on its own way. |
| 0:23.5 | It is not irritable or resentful. It does |
| 0:25.8 | not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, |
| 0:33.1 | hopes all things, and doers all things. |
| 0:38.5 | Welcome to the Art of Catholic. I'm Matthew Leonard. This is the podcast that dives into the truth |
| 0:42.8 | beauty and goodness of the Catholic faith and seeks to take our practice of it to the next level. |
| 0:49.4 | And I got a great guest for you guys today. |
| 0:51.8 | And this one's a really important episode. |
| 0:55.7 | We cover a lot of ground in this conversation. |
| 0:58.6 | And with whom I conversing, my guest is Matt Swain, who is the outreach manager for the |
| 1:03.3 | coming home network and he's producer of EWTN's The Journey Home, as well as co-host of the Sunrise Morning Show on EWTN Radio. |
| 1:11.8 | And he's also the author of a handful of books, including Catholic puzzles, |
| 1:16.2 | word games and brain teaser series, and he and his family live outside Washington, D.C. |
| 1:21.0 | Now, Matt's a really fascinating guy as you're going to see. In fact, this is going |
| 1:25.7 | to be an extremely interesting conversation for Kato, Kato, Catholics, who wonder, you know, |
| 1:30.0 | what's life like as an evangelical? The original intent was for Matt to kind of tell us this |
| 1:35.2 | conversion story, but we go way beyond that as you're going to see. And for those of you who are, |
| 1:39.9 | you know, converts or maybe potential converts, this is is gonna be kind of a stroll down memory lane for you. |
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