When I started researching the sympto-thermal method (the one my friend was using in her marriage), it didn’t take me long to understand that this method was NOT the rhythm method, and that it COULD be effective. And NFP was more in line with my feminism than birth control anyway. After that, I understood that Catholic feminism was more in line with my values after all – in all areas of faith and life.

Tell us a little about yourself. My name is Holly, and I am wife to Shane and mom of two boys. I work at my parish and am also a theology student. We live in the Midwest, and I made the jump to theology/parish work after an 8 year career as a portrait/wedding photographer. I…

I always like to think my whole life and relationship with Our Lord was building to my conversion. Truly no detail was insignificant. I had a solid faith foundation being raised in a devout Christian home and being surrounded by people who loved Jesus and the Gospel. I just always had a sense that there was something more, and while I never purposefully went out looking for it, and there was never a desire to reject my upbringing I was simply hungry and waiting for Jesus to reveal Himself more fully.

From Genie Shaw: My love for the Church was nurtured more and more as I learned about church history and the liturgical year in the Christian education class (the equivalent of RCIA) at our parish. But the reformation, especially the teachings of Luther and Calvin that some parishioners believed, never sat right with me. Also the lack of what I soon learned to be the Magisterium was a great void.

From Bonnie Way: When I got back from Australia, I went for coffee with my Catholic friend and finally asked him for his conversion story. He said what had ultimately attracted him to the Church was the Eucharist: “If that’s where God is, then that’s where I want to be.” That awakened a hunger in me because that was what I’d experienced in Australia — this desire to be where God is. We kept talking about faith and began dating.

We became Catholic 8 years ago. We made a lot of steps towards Catholicism that we didn’t realize were steps, but the big final push was looking for a Church that considered our miscarried and stillborn babies people.