Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vot, the host and the senior publishing

director at Word on Fire. Today we share with you the first lesson in our brand new course

inside the Word on Fire Institute titled Evangelizing Protestants. This course is taught by

Andrew Petaprin, who is the venerable Fulton J. Sheen Fellow of popular culture at the Word on Fire

Institute. Andrew is also a former Episcopal priest who converted to Catholicism. In this course,

Andrew takes you inside several important texts that express how the Catholic Church thinks about

Protestants and explain how they belong with us inside the Catholic Church. You'll look at works by

St. John Henry Newman, Pope Pius IX, the Second Vatican Council, all the way up through Pope's John

Paul II and Benedict XVI. In this first lesson of the course, which we're sharing today,

Andrew shares a little about his personal journey and also encourages Catholics to support

any Protestant friends or family members who may be discerning coming into full communion with

the Church. He also draws on the particular experience of St. John Henry Newman. Andrew sees Newman

as a role model for all our Protestant brothers and sisters who are considering making this step.

So sit back and enjoy lesson one from Andrew Petaprin's new Word on Fire Institute course titled

Evangelizing Protestants. And then to get the rest of the lessons in this course, you want to sign

up for the Word on Fire Institute. You can do that at the website wordonfire.institute. You'll join

upwards of 30,000 Catholic evangelists who are all learning how to better evangelize the culture,

including our Protestant brothers and sisters. So sit back and enjoy this great lesson from Andrew

Petaprin. When Protestants make their way to the Catholic Church, there is a fairly good chance

that their journey began or included a stop of some length in the Anglican communion.

Now a fellowship of tens of millions of Christians, Anglicans trace their history back to the Church

of England, which was born in 1534 when King Henry VIII desired and was refused a papal

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