Hello, hello, and welcome to Pints with Aquinas. My name is Matt Frad. And today, I'm really excited because I'm going to share with you, these three, I say share, we're going to have three young men, three young male college students on the show who I met in Austin just a couple of weeks ago and when I was there they said to me that

they started a Bible study last year in part to sort of convince themselves that Catholicism

was false. Well as of today they are all Catholic and so we are going to be hearing their story.

Now let me just kind of address a couple of things before we get going.

I have conversion stories like this quite often on the show, and it's been interesting to me of late.

There's been a number of people who've accused us of sheep stealing.

And I think by sheep stealing what they mean is trying to make people Catholic. So if that is what they mean, yep, yeah, that is absolutely what I'm doing. But of course, stealing implies that the other had little or no say in the matter. And obviously nobody's about forcing people to become Catholic. Even the Catholic Church says you can't force people to become Catholic.

How about sheep persuasion?

About helping people outside of the Catholic Church become Catholic.

Yeah, that is what this is about.

Now, I'm really excited because me and a couple of friends have founded an apostolate called Cross the Tiber.

Now, this is a really cool website. I want you guys go to check it out. I've got a link in the

description below. Basically, if you are a Protestant or an atheist or you're outside of the church,

but you really do have serious questions about

the Catholic Church. What do you do? We founded this community so that you can join for free,

and you will join a small video chat group of other people who are considering becoming Catholic.

You can ask your questions, you can offer your objections, and each group will be headed up by a Catholic that we choose, who's knowledgeable in the faith and charitable. You know, this is not about making anyone feel bad. This is not about being judgmental. You know, we just, we just, this is a charitable exchange between people who are not yet Catholic who want to cross the Tiber. The Taiba, by the way, is that river between Rome and the Vatican.

So go check it out. Cross thetiber.com if you are a non-Catholic considering becoming

Catholic. And again, there is a link in the description below. Okay, so let's see if we can do this. This is the, hey, you go on

guys. This is the first time I've had four people on the show. I guess I'm one of those people,

but good to have you. Yeah, glad to test out. Thank you so much for me. You got it. Look,

before we delve into the discussion, could I have one of you just sort of sum up what has taken place, I guess, over the last year or so?

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