Conversions

10 Reasons to Celebrate Being Catholic

10 Reasons to Celebrate Being Catholic

Theology Uncorked is happy to announce that our next installment will be held on Friday, January 8th, 2010 at 6:30PM. The theme for the gathering is: “TEN REASONS TO CELEBRATE BEING CATHOLIC” A Presentation on the Joys of Our Catholic Identity Our speaker will be Deacon Joseph Upton, a seminarian for the Diocese of Providence [...]

Deacon Cured through Cardinal Newman To Visit Birmingham Oratory

Deacon Jack Sullivan of Massachusetts and his wife Carol will be making a special trip to Birmingham England in November. Sullivan could not walk and suffered agonizing pain…he again prayed to Cardinal Newman. “I felt tremendous heat and a tingling feeling all over that lasted for five or 10 minutes,” Sullivan told EWTN. “After I [...]

100,000 Catholics Come Home – An Apostolic Movement

The CatholicsComeHome.org television initiative and web site were directly responsible for bringing nearly 100,000 inactive Catholics and converts home to the Church during Lent 2008. These consistent results have motivated a dozen other archdioceses and dioceses throughout the United States to partner with CatholicsComeHome.org to launch campaigns in their areas during the upcoming seasons of [...]

John C. Wright, Sci-Fi author: “I thought I should tell you…”

‘After three years of prayer, thought, and debate, and an honest attempt to follow where the spirit leads me, I am joining the Roman Catholic Church this Easter…‘ ‘For my Protestant friends, all I can do is assure you that that Church you broke away from in centuries past has been reformed of the abuses [...]

New England Catholic Family Fellowship website launches

The new website for New England  Catholic Family Fellowship (NECFF) has launched. Stop by and check it out, and join the email list… newenglandcatholic.org

Lutheran: I get far less trouble from the bishop of Rome

‘There is a sort of sour gloominess at the prospect of organizing still one more micro-church body for Lutherans in America. Somehow I just don’t think this is what the world has been awaiting…’ ‘There might be a few subsidiary issues to settle, but get us inside first and everything else becomes manageable…’ ‘Our Lutheran [...]

How Mary Lou Williams, jazz artist, converted to Catholicism

Cardinal Newman’s influence

‘Over 150 years later, Newman is up for beatification by the Catholic Church. It’s a move that some believe could pave the way for clear and concise dialogue between Anglicans and Catholics’ ‘A focus on the church as a divine institution, a focus on bishops as successors of the apostles, a focus of a real [...]

Common misconception: Catholics aren’t Christian

‘I grew up Southern Baptist and became Catholic when I was 29. My initial contact with the Catholic Church was through a girl I worked with. I’d talk with her about religion and she knew her faith well, which challenged me in my own faith…’ ‘My aunt, a devout Christian, and I were talking a [...]

Cracking open the Bible

‘…reading through the scripture from a Catholic perspective, and learning things about Jesus, the Apostles, and Mary that I never saw before…Somehow these things were never emphasized for me, OR I just missed them. But in the Catholic tradition, I found Jesus Christ in a way that really spoke volumes to me.’ Read it all, [...]

Upcoming Events

September 17th, 2010, 7:00PM
Saint Philip’s Church,
622 Putnam Pike
Greenville, Rhode Island


Heart Speaks to Heart: An Evening in Honor of John Henry Newman

7:00PM, Solemn Evening Prayer with Eucharistic Exposition and Benediction
Presider: Fr. Joseph R. Upton, Chaplain, The Newman Fellowship
Homilist: Fr. Henry J. Bodah, Brown University Catholic Chaplain

~Wine, cheese & fellowship
during break

8:00PM, Lecture: "Knowing and Believing This Truth Entirely: Newman's Abiding Contribution"
Presenter: Fr. David L. Stokes, Assistant Professor of Theology, Providence College

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