CatholicFatherOf2

Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey To Catholicism

I think I first heard "Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey To Catholicism" by Scott and Kimberly Hahn while listening to the Rosary Army Podcast. I wasn’t sure I would read it at first. I had just read a number of books that covered the topic of conversions and apologetics and I was thinking about reading more about the history of the early church. I just picked it up to give a quick once over when it arrived in the mail, but when I read the following quote “In truth, the journey began as a detective story, but soon it became more like a horror story, until it finally ended up as a great romance story…” on the first page of the introduction. I was so intrigued that I started reading the rest of the book.

The book is about 182 pages long and broken up into 9 chapters. The book covers the lives of Scott and Kimberly from before the time they meet each other until they meet Pope John Paul II. The format of the book is very interesting because each chapter covers the events of their lives first from his points of view and then from hers. I like the book because it doesn’t sugar coat any of their trials and tribulations. It deals with the issues about how their conversion almost destroyed their marriage and isolated them from their families, but in then end made their love even stronger. It is a great story and yet it teaches a lot about the Catholic faith. My favorite quote from the book paraphrased here is “Either the Catholic Church professes the Truth or it is insidious”. Needless to say they decide that it professes the truth.

I would recommend this book to anyone inside our outside of the Catholic church that wants to know more about the church and its teachings or anyone that might want to get inside the head of someone converting to Catholicism. However, the book does stand on its own as a wonderful story about love.

posted by CatholicFatherOf2 @ 8:35 PM