Callous treatment of a skilled drug-addicted nun-surgeon by her peer group in the Catholic Medical Missionary Order caused me, a dedicated nun, to become disillusioned. Within every person lies a marvelous adventure story of his life. Here is my story and the three torturous, separate paths I took on my journey toward peace and reconciliation Read More

During most of my life, I never even considered salvation in Christ, because I did not even know about it. It was the Lord’s desire that I be saved before I was born! What a blessing! Scripture says that each believer was chosen before the foundation of the world, “According as he hath chosen us Read More

God’s Word Needs No Authority Other Than Itself God’s Word needs no authority other than itself. When I comprehended that principle, I was free–free to search the Scriptures for truth! In them, I found the way to God. Man gets to God, God’s way, through Jesus Christ, as revealed in the Bible. “I am the Read More

Like any teenager, the dream of my life was to have a family and home of my own. I attended public school during the week and catechism class on Saturdays. A Franciscan Order of sisters taught the catechism and one sister in particular played an important part in my life. She invited me to join Read More

I served as a sister in a religious order for about fifty years and during all that time, I had never heard the true Gospel. Certain things may be let ride, but when it comes to the Gospel there can be no compromise, because the Gospel is the power of God for salvation. A false Read More

Mom was a “devout” Methodist in 1913 when she “dared” to marry a “devout” Catholic man. As a result, her family disowned her. This was later negated when the loving sisters of Mom chose to renew relationships in their golden years. Into this union were born eighteen children: eleven boys and seven girls. Three of Read More

Brought up in a strict Roman Catholic family where the emphasis was on God’s punishment for sins, I was very much afraid of Him.  From my early years, it was also impressed upon me that Jesus founded the Roman Catholic Church, and that only in the Catholic Church was He actually present (body and blood) Read More

Mary C. Hertel (formerly Sister Mary Dolora, C.S.J.) Having taken the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience in a Roman Catholic diocesan order, my steps were set in the logical direction prepared by my youth.  Raised in a strong Catholic home, educated in Catholic schools for sixteen years, and trained by six years of convent Read More

Jo Ellen Kaminski “He who hears My word…has passed out of death into life.” (John 5:24) At age nineteen, I was baptized a Roman Catholic.  I had been searching for God and thought I had found the true religion in Catholicism.  My new faith was a great comfort to me, but in a few years Read More

Donna Spader Shire (Formerly Sister Madonna Therese) Of the sixteen children born to my parents, two became priests and I became a nun.  From earliest childhood we were taught that the Catholic Church was the only true church, and that in order to one day gain eternal life in heaven, we must be good and do Read More

Doreen Eberhardt (D’Antonio) I was born and raised in a Catholic family.  My mother was very devout.  The point came in my life when I wanted to serve God in a special way.  Since I was a Catholic, the only way I knew was to enter the convent.  I decided to enter the Sisters of Read More

Wilma Sullivan (Formerly Sister Wilma Marie, R.S.M.) “Sincere” and “zealous” are the words that describe the religious aspects of my life for twenty-nine and a half years as a Roman Catholic.  I so desired to do what was right.  I went to Mass, received the sacraments, loved my neighbors, and basically tried to do good to Read More

Providential Call by Fire During the Brazilian depression in 1934 my father abandoned our home and my mother found herself with the total responsibility of caring for her family. We were quite poor, my parents had struggled to overcome difficulties and hard times, but our family had togetherness. That is, until my father’s frequent visits to a “Spiritist Read More

THE CONVERSION OF A CATHOLIC NUN I was born into a Catholic family where the rules of the Catholic Church were practiced. After eight years of Catholic elementary school, at thirteen years of age, I entered a preparatory high school for a religious congregation. While in the congregation I attended four years of college and Read More

Forty five years of my life were spent as a Roman Catholic, twenty two of them as a nun in an enclosed convent dedicated to adoration, reparation and suffering. I believed it was a nun’s calling to be a miniature savior of the world like Jesus Christ. My Decision to be a Nun After attending Read More

Set Free by God’s Unmerited Grace John 8:36 “Who the Son sets free, is free indeed.” Early On Prior to reading Ephesians 2:8 and realizing God’s grace is a free gift given through faith, and could not be earned, I thought I would “do” a lot of things for God. At a young age I Read More

Karlene Lynn A few months before she went to be with her Savior, in May of 1995, Karlene Lynn wrote her testimony.  Pastor Mike Gendron led her to the Lord, baptized, instructed her in the Christian life, and buried her.  Karlene died just eighteen months after receiving the gift of salvation.  She had been a Read More

Amy Bentley Knowing about Christ has been a roundabout sort of thing for me because I became a Roman Catholic after being taught the truth as a child.  It was the example and influence of my dear mother that eventually brought me to the relationship I have with God today.  She saw to it that Read More

Rocio Pestana Segovia The youngest in a family of four brothers and four sisters, I am a Spaniard who was born in Madrid. My family was profoundly involved in the Roman Catholic Church. One of my aunts, Maria Josefa Segovia, was the co-founder of a secular religious order, the Institucion Teresiana,dedicated to education. My Early Read More

Alicia Simpson I was born into a Roman Catholic household.  As a child I knew nothing but abuse and ill-treatment from a mother, a father and then a step-father, of whom I was terrified.  Because they were people well-known in business and musical circles, their cruelty was never discovered. When the time came for schooling, Read More