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    Former Priests
    What happened in the hearts and minds of Roman Catholic priests during the time of the Great Reformation continues today just as in every succeeding generation. Eyes and ears are opened to the truths proclaimed in the infallible authority of the Holy Scriptures. Watch the remarkable stories of these priests and nuns who have taken a stand on the Word of God.

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    We ought to obey God rather than men-God’s grace in the life of a priest – Nino Tirelli

    Dear brothers, sisters, and friends; in gratitude and praise to the Triune God, and in the joy of our salvation freely granted through the Blood of the Lamb, I rejoice in this opportunity to present my testimony to you, as I remember His promise: “Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess Read More

    Free Indeed – Alexander (Sandy) Carson

    “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.” (II Timothy 3:16-17) From childhood to age forty-four, seventeen years as a Roman priest (1955-1972), the Roman Catholic Church had Read More

    To Follow Jesus Without Compromise – Victor J. Affonso

    At the age of twenty-three, I was a successful commercial artist on the verge of going abroad where a job was awaiting me. I was happy at the prospect of leaving India and, thereby, also escaping the terrible anguish caused of seeing the misery of the poor in the streets of Bombay. Political saviors like Read More

    A Catholic Priest Born From Above – Henry Nowakowski

    Hello, my name is Henry Nowakowski.  Let me tell you my life story.[1]  I was born two years before the outbreak of WW II.  Mind you, like everyone else, I had no say whatsoever as to when I would be born, where I would be born, to whom I would be born.  No, the Creator Read More

    Life After the Catholic Priesthood – Dominic Stockford

    While it is most difficult to go back over my many years in the Catholic Church and its priesthood, I see that it is necessary.  I remember, and I take courage from the words of the Apostle Paul; “…in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us” (Romans 8:37). My Read More

    Fifty Years in the Church of Rome – Charles Chiniquy

    I was born and baptized a Roman Catholic in 1809, and I was ordained a priest in the year 1833 in Canada. For twenty-five years I was a priest of the Church, and I tell you frankly that I loved the Church of Rome, and she loved me. I would have shed every drop of Read More

    Christ Alone is the Way – Henry Gregory Adams

    What great relief and heavenly peace came into my soul when Christ found me, a lost sinner! I was born of Roman Catholic parents in Wolseley, Saskatchewan, Canada and brought up strictly in the Roman Catholic faith. From early youth I was trying to be good, yet falling progressively into sin. With the rest of Read More

    From Friar to Freedom in Christ – Hugh Farrell

    “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit” (Romans 8:1). A Pious Desire Many years ago, when I decided to become a priest in the Roman Catholic Church, I wanted to walk with Christ. However, because I was born a Read More

    Saved by the Free Grace of God – Robert V. Julien

    I chose to become not only a Roman Catholic priest but more than that, a Roman Catholic missionary priest. The reason was that I wanted to do great exploits for God. I thought that being a missionary in some far-away land and learning a strange language and strange customs would indeed be a great adventure, Read More

    A Priest, but a Stranger To God – Joseph Tremblay

    God is able to save anyone, anytime, anywhere. Wherever the person in question be found, whatever the profession in which he be engaged, whatever his race, God is still able in our day to save whosoever will repent of his sins and trust in Jesus Christ for salvation. My own experience is an example of Read More

    An Irresistible Call – Cipriano Valdes Jaimes

    You and I have no doubt seen at one time or another a man dressed in a long black or white robe, walking along with his hands folded and with a serene expression on his face. Our first thought may have been that we were looking at a “ god, dressed like a man,” to Read More

    Why I Left the Monastery – Miguel Carvajal

    It was four o’clock in the morning. I put as much clothing and other articles as possible into a suitcase. My decision to leave the monastery had been made. I carefully opened the door of my room without turning on a light, because it might be harmful to me personally if I were discovered slipping Read More

    If I Had Stayed in Roman Catholicism, I Would Not Have Found Jesus – Anibal Pereira Dos Reis

    I was born in São Joaquim da Barra, Sao Paulo State in Brazil on the 9th of March, 1924, into a family deeply rooted in Catholicism. My father was Portuguese, and in order not to be an exception to the common rule aligned himself with the admirers of the Lady of Fatima, fate, and good Read More

    I Found Everything When I Found Christ – Anthony Pezzotta

    While studying theology in England, I began to have serious doubts concerning certain doctrines of my Church, which I found difficult to reconcile with Scripture. These doubts continued to trouble me even after my ordination, but I endeavored to smother them by plunging into my studies and teaching assignments. My schedule was so heavy that Read More

    There Is Power in Christ’s Atoning Blood – Simon Kottoor

    The love of Christ compels me to give testimony to my conversion from the Roman Catholic priesthood to the born-again life in Jesus Christ. For twenty-five years I was a Roman Catholic priest, strictly following the rituals of a system that enveloped me as a huge and indomitable fortress of darkness and ignorance of the Read More

    From Dead Religion To New Life In Christ – Vincent O’Shaughnessy

    “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (II Corinthians 5:17). I was born and raised on a farm in West Limerick, Ireland, and the memories of my childhood are happy ones. The youngest of seven children (three sisters and Read More

    From the Monastery to the Ministry – José Borras

    Father, you must start a campaign against the Protestants. They are growing more and more,” said Sister Dolores, a nun in a cloister where I went on Sundays to say Mass and preach. I was a young priest and teacher in a school of Spain when the nun asked me Sunday after Sunday to do Read More

    I Received Mercy – Edoardo Labanchi

    The only religion of which I had any knowledge was that of the Roman Catholic Church. So I decided to become a priest and joined the Jesuit order. My superiors seemed to be quite satisfied with me, and I was admitted to take the vows that are usually taken only after two years of probation. Read More

    My ‘Damascus Road’ – Francisco Lacueva

    I was born of Roman Catholic parents on the 28th of September 1911, in San Celoni, province of Barcelona, Spain. My father died in 1918 at an early age during the influenza epidemic that visited so many homes in my country. I was only six, and my mother had to work hard from then on, Read More

    Thou Knowest That I love Thee – Juan T. Sanz

    I was born April 28, 1930, in Somosiera (Madrid), Spain), the eighth child in a Roman Catholic family. I felt the call to the priesthood when I was thirteen, while listening to a sermon during the Mass (March 19, 1943). For economical reasons, I did not enter the minor seminary of the Diocese of Madrid Read More

    The Professor’s Methods Did Not Work – Celso Muniz

    Search for Truth From childhood on, I looked restlessly for reality and certainty. In my youthful opinion, it was through the priesthood that I could best experience truth and salvation for the soul. A schoolteacher once said to me, “It is more difficult for a priest to be lost than for a stone to float Read More

    From Roman Priest to Radio Evangelist – Manuel Garrido Aldama

    “ …Ye must be born again” (John 3:7). “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). God Meant It for Good Often we may look back on our lives and wonder why certain things happened to Read More

    Jesus Saved Even Me – Jose Manuel De Leon

    I was born in Viscaia, Spain, on the 9th of April 1925. At age eleven I lost my father, a victim of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Some uncles, sincere, yet deceived, set me on the road to studying for the priesthood. I was ordained a priest on the 24th of September 1949. Although for Read More

    Out of Hell and Purgatory – Peter Alphonsus Sequin

    I was born in Rigand County in the province of Vaudreuil, Quebec, Canada. I was the ninth child of ten children; there being eight boys and two girls. My parents were exceedingly devout Roman Catholics. They were good, moral, sober, and industrious people who did their best to raise their children for God and country, Read More

    I Was A Blind Leader Of The Blind – Salvatore Gargiulo

    “…Can the blind lead the blind? shall theynot both fall into the ditch?” (Luke 6:39) My name is Salvatore Gargiulo. I was converted to the Gospel of the Lord Jesus in 1977, and I am now serving Him in the same place where I previously followed the calling of a Roman Catholic priest. My conversion Read More

    The Truth Set Me Free – Toon Vanhuysse

    I was born in Zwevegem, Belgium on 13 October 1940, in the beginning of the war years. My parents were very pious Catholic people. Father was an extremely strict man, but at the same time also very affable. Besides family troubles (there were ten children) and the worry with the weaving mill, father found time Read More

    The Holy Spirit Leads His People – Roman Mazierski

    Into the Light and Out of the Darkness The questions I am always asked are, “How did it happen that you have turned to the Lord and become a Bible believer, after having been a Roman Catholic priest for many years? Did you read any Protestant books? Did you approach a Protestant pastor to seek Read More

    I Was Blind, Now I See – Jose A. Fernandez

    I was born blind, not only physically but also spiritually in 1899, in one of the most mountainous and inaccessible regions of Asturias, rightly called the “Spanish Switzerland.” My parents were devout Roman Catholics who had the faith of the “coal man” mentioned by St. Teresa of Avila, that is, they believed implicitly everything that Read More

    New Life for a Jesuit Priest – José Rico

    After nineteen years of continual, threatened shipwreck in the Roman Catholic priesthood, on the 15 of April 1956, I arrived on the tranquil shores of peace with God through Jesus Christ. Among the reasons for leaving my native Spain was the call of American bishops in the face of the avalanche of Protestantism in Latin Read More

    God’s Grace in New Guinea – Jacob Van der Velden

    I made the decision to become a priest out of a deep conviction. I wanted to go as a missionary to the unexplored islands of the Papuas to bring them the message of God, the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I thought that I was well acquainted with all the difficulties that were waiting there for Read More

    My Path Into Christ’s Joy – Charles A. Bolton

    I remember on one occasion working in a hayfield from morning until evening under a burning sun, and then, weary and with my skin seeming on fire, going off to a clear blue pool in a shaded woodland to throw off my sweaty clothes and to bathe in the refreshing waters, which were like a Read More

    From Works to the Light of the Gospel – John Preston

    The truth shall make you free” (John 8:32). The truth of Jesus’ Gospel has set millions of people free from their sins, burdens, and worries. This is clear proof that the unadulterated Word of the Holy Scriptures is still “the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth” (Romans 1:16). The story of my Read More

    Twenty-Three Years In The Jesuit Order – Luis Padrosa

    I have found that there is no foundation in the gospel for the dogmas of the Roman Catholic Church. Such a statement from the lips of the Rev. Father Luis Padrosa, dressed in his priest’s robes, left the evangelical pastor, Samuel Vila, whose advice he sought in that first memorable interview, almost speechless, with astonishment. Read More

    Living Water and Peace with God – Mariano Rughi

    I believe that it is God’s will that we who have found spiritual healing through Christ should speak out and testify about this to others, God’s purpose being that of touching others through those He has already touched. The Cry of Heresy My conversion from Romanism to Christ did not come about in a moment Read More

    I Found Christ the Only Mediator – John Zanon

    I was born in 1910 to poor but devout Roman Catholic parents living in northern Italy. Following my ordination by Cardinal Rossi, June 29, 1935, I was sent to the United States. A few years after I came to this country, I received a table radio as a birthday gift. To my surprise and joy, Read More

    The Gospel of Grace in Jesus Christ – Thoufic Khouri

    A witness is an Evangelical message, a message that one receives and desires to pass on, a message from the Evangel, and that Evangel is Jesus Christ. This gospel message is a love story, the story of the love between a particular person and Jesus Christ, and that love is now made possible because the Read More

    The Word of God Came to My Rescue – Joseph Lulich

    My name is Joseph Lulich. I am glad to be able to share with you what the grace of God has done in my life. I speak to you as an older man who has lived most of his life as an ex-Roman Catholic priest, one who once served faithfully and sincerely the Roman church Read More

    From Priest to Preacher – J. M. A. Hendriksen

    When in former days in the monastery they came to wake us, they would knock at the door while calling “Blessed be the name of Jesus Christ,” and the response would be “Forever and ever, Amen.” Only then would the caller take it as a sign that we had heard the knock and were awake. Read More

    A Priest Asks God for Grace – Charles Berry

    As practicing Catholics, we dedicated half an hour each Sunday to attending Mass, but religion really played a minor part in our family. As a teenager, I was ashamed of my Catholic beliefs, avoiding going to church whenever I could. Then something happened that changed the direction of my life. Suffering to Get to Heaven Read More

    From Death to Life – Carlo Fumagalli

    My life was tossed about by different opinions and driven here and there by every wind of doctrine (Ephesians 4:14), until I found Jesus the Rock and Cornerstone (Matthew. 21:42, Acts 4:11, Ephesians. 2:20, I Peter 2:6-7), or rather, until Jesus, my glorious Lord and Savior, found me. I can now say with David, “He Read More

    A Monk for Twenty Years and then Born Again – Renato di Lorenzo

    I would never have believed that I would leave the Roman Catholic Church, even less the priesthood. If someone had predicted it, I would have thought it impossible. I entered the Salesian Order at the age of fifteen, and in due time, I was ordained to the priesthood. I worked mainly with young people and Read More

    My Encounter With God – Guido Scalzi

    Our little house at Mesoraca was situated in a hamlet called “Filippa” which was not very far from the monastery of the Franciscan Friars, located on top of a beautiful hill. It was there that I as a child went with my family to hear Mass. Majesty and Monastery I remember one particular morning I Read More

    I Was Not Antagonistic To The Truth – Bruno Bottesin

    I was born in Vicenza, Italy, in 1917. At the age of eleven I entered the Franciscan College to study for the Priesthood. After my ordination I became the pastor of a small mountain parish of Castagnara. In 1954 I was transferred to a larger parish in the city of Chieti. Then Bishop Piasentini invited Read More

    Pilgrimage From Rome – Bartholomew F. Brewer

    Millions—perhaps the majority—of Roman Catholics are Catholic by name, by culture, or by inertia. Our family, however, was Roman Catholic by conviction. We understood and practiced the teachings of our religion. We believed it to be the “one true church” founded by Jesus Christ. Because of this, we accepted without question everything our priests taught. In Read More

    Once a Jesuit, Now a Child of God – Bob Bush

    I began my Catholic journey in a little country town in northern California in the U.S.A. The town was so small that we did not have Mass every Sunday, but a priest used to come once a month if he possibly could to hold Mass in a big public hall. I have both an older Read More

    Rescued by the Grace of God – Cuthbert Dzingirai

    Painful yoga, endless meditation before candles, hours of labor, empty fasts and undue emphasis on community life that diminished individuality, made me realize that I had joined one of the strictest religious orders for priests. When I joined the order, I was not aware of the differences between secular and regular clergy in the Roman Catholic Read More

    God’s Merciful Grace: Before and After My Life as a Priest – J. Ernest Fresques

    As a child, I considered the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church as my basic standard of morality. My relationship to my Creator depended on them—or so I was told. The message I received was that I was all right with God as long as I was all right with the Church. I was all right Read More

    True Gospel in the Context of My Own Testimony – Richard M. Bennett

    By Richard Bennett From the time I was a young boy in Dublin, Ireland, I was taught to look within myself for holiness. In my years in a Jesuit elementary and secondary school, I was trained to look within myself for moral goodness through the sacraments and mental prayer. I was ordained as a Dominican Read More

    Yesterday a Priest and today a Missionary – Dario A. Santamaria

    I was born in Belle, Antiequio, Colombia, on June 22, 1942. I first went to school in the Institute Manuel Jose Caicido taught by the Christian Brothers, an order whose work is teaching children. Here I studied six years. After this, I studied in the school of the Salesian Fathers for five years. My last Read More

    The Soul of a Priest – Leo Lehmann

    I have seen Roman Catholicism at work on three continents. I have ridden with cardinals in their luxurious limousines past the saluting Swiss Guards and through the Damascus Gate of the Vatican, leading to the Pontiff’s private apartments. I have watched while a pope died, saw him buried, and his successor elected and crowned. I Read More

    The Way Made Clear – Joseph Cherucheril

    After years of traveling a road set before me from birth, the words of Jesus Christ taken from John 14:6, “I am the way, the truth and the life” put me on a completely new path. My life has been eternally changed and the darkness of deception has been turned to the light of uncompromising truth. Read More

    Richard Bennett – From Tradition To Truth – A Priest’s Story

    The Early Years Born Irish, in a family of eight, my early childhood was fulfilled and happy. My father was a colonel in the Irish Army until he retired when I was about nine. As a family, we loved to play, sing, and act, all within a military camp in Dublin. We were a typical Read More

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    Testimony of a Former Catholic Priest

    Former Roman Catholic Priest, Richard Bennett shares his life story of coming to true Biblical salvation outside of the Catholic Church. His story covers many years of deep contemplation over the message of the scriptures and his trial as he compared the Bible with official Catholic teaching. Richard clearly shows the joy of the Lord as he comes to biblical salvation at the age of 48 and then his departure from the priesthood.
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    Richard Bennett’s Testimony

    Former Roman Catholic priest Richard Bennett delivers his heart to heart testimony of true Biblical salvation apart from the Catholic Church. This is a story of many years of searching for truth and eventually leading to the authority of scripture and true Christianity.
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    Testimony of a Catholic Priest

    Hear the trials and tribulations of a Roman Catholic Priest in his struggle to truly know he was going to heaven when he died and have a relationship with Jesus Christ. This 13 year struggle of Richard to know God in a real biblical way crosses 2 oceans, 2 continents and even 2 hemispheres. Watch what powerful and wonderful things God did to save him from his sins and give him real peace and love instead of his own empty works.
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    Conversation Between Two Former Priests

    Richard Bennett and Richard Cefalu, both formerly Roman Catholic Priest, discuss their love for the Scriptures and provide an insight into it’s life changing power. These men were thoroughly trained in all things Catholic and had even put into practice the doctrines of the Catholic Church yet never fully understood the true power of God.
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    Two former Catholic Priests and a Nun Testify of Conversion to Christianity

    Classic interview of former priest Richard Bennett, Bart Brewer and former Nun Rocio Pestana Segovia. A vary candid discussion of the ecumenical movement, promise keepers and the difficulties in coming out of the Catholic Church. Each of these former Catholic clergy share their testimony of coming to biblical faith and true salvation.
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    Two Former Priests Analyze Catholicism

    In the interview, former priest Henry Nowakowski’s discusses his life dedicated to the Catholic priesthood. Henry’s seminary training and experience reveals much of the heart of Papal Rome. Very informative also was their joint analysis of the Vatican Council II. The high-point of the interview was Henry Nowakowski’s analyses of the contrast of God’s sovereignty to Roman Catholic claim to the Pope’s infallibility.
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    Why Did 50 Priests Leave the Roman Catholic Church?

    This Video reviews the moving testimonies of fifty priests who found their way, by the grace of God, out of the labyrinth of Roman Catholic theology and practice into the light of the gospel of Christ. This is not argumentative presentation. It is message of loving care.
    The love and concern felt by the former priests for those they left behind, and their fervent desire that they too should experience they joy and peace of salvation in Christ are seen throughout.
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    A Catholic Priest is Biblically Saved

    Richard Bennett clearly explains how, as a sincere Catholic Priest, that the Lord Jesus Christ triumphed over him. This is a condensed and concise review of his life and testimony of true salvation.
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    A Priests Story on Location by Richard Bennett

    Hear Richard Bennett, former Catholic priest of 22 years, tell his story on site in his native Ireland. He talks of his home, the schools, and the church where God began to draw him from darkness into the marvelous light of the Gospel of Grace. His witness to the Lord’s mercy tenderly reveals God’s love for Catholics.
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    An Overview of a Testimony by Richard Bennett Part 1

    Richard Bennett give a heart to heart talk revealing his amazing journey from the priesthood to true salvation in Christ which he found outside the church of Rome.
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    Questions and Answers by Richard Bennett Part 2

    Former Dominican priest Richard Bennett fields a question and answers session touching on key Biblical concepts that truly deflate Roman Catholic claims to Christianity.
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    From Death to Life – Carlo Fumagalli


    In the Higher Seminary of the Consolata at Turin (as is the case in every other Catholic seminary and college) the study was based on Aristotle’s Greek philosophy that, with theology, was a pre-requisite for all the higher academic grades in Holy Scripture. Roman Catholic theology is thus built up around pagan philosophy. The Bible in turn is influenced and pervaded by an adulterated theology. This approach to the Bible is obviously wrong since the Word of God cannot be linked to or influenced by any human philosophy or doctrine (see Colossians 2:8, II Timothy 2:9).
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    A Monk for Twenty Years and then Born Again – Renato di Lorenzo


    I would never have believed that I would leave the Roman Catholic Church, even less the priesthood. If someone had predicted it, I would have thought it impossible.
    I entered the Salesian Order at the age of fifteen, and in due time, I was ordained to the priesthood.
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    My Encounter With God – Guido Scalzi


    I returned to the monastery and began to read the Holy Bible in Italian. For my spirit and soul, it was like a fountain of water for someone that thirsts and sight for the blind. Each page brought new surprises and new light, like opened windows to the walls of a prison. Is it possible? I would repeat to myself. Is it possible that I lived so many years without ever knowing all of these marvelous things? One day I told Pastor Tortorelli how I felt. “The Lord is calling you out of falsehood. Leave everything, and be converted to the Gospel of Jesus Christ,” was his response.
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    I Was Not Antagonistic To The Truth – Bruno Bottesin


    At last I thought I had found the right place for my ministry. I was a teacher in the seminary, pastor of a good parish, and had gained the favor of the Bishop. I organized a very fine Action Group. I worked day and night for my people with great zeal, but very soon I began to realize that all my activities and teaching of the Catechism and Roman dogma were not able to change the lives of my people.
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    Pilgrimage From Rome – Bartholomew F. Brewer


    I truly believed that God had called me to serve Him. An ethical dilemma was staring me in the face. What was I to do? Yes, there were priests who did not believe all the dogmas of Rome. Yes there were priests who secretly had wives and families. Yes, I could remain a Catholic Chaplain and continue serving without voicing my disagreements.
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    Once a Jesuit, Now a Child of God – Bob Bush


    I finally realized after much conviction of the Holy Spirit that not giving myself totally to Him, one hundred percent, was grieving my Lord, as I was sinning a sin of compromise. I also came to realize that the Roman Catholic Church cannot change. If it did change, there would be no Pope, no rosary, no purgatory, no priests, no mass, etc. After 17 years of brainwashing, I got my brain washed and cleansed by the Holy Spirit. In a word, what was happening to me over this period is explained in Romans 12:1-2.
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    True Gospel in the Context of My Own Testimony – Richard M. Bennett


    It is unscriptural to think that salvation begins by Christ first coming into the sinful heart of a man. It is essential to understand that natural man is totally deficient in and of himself. It is not that he is merely weak and needs stimulation; spiritually he is dead. In the words of the Apostle, “And you hath He quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins.
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    Yesterday a Priest and today a Missionary – Dario A. Santamaria


    n our home we had a beautiful Bible in which we noted marriages, deaths, and births; a Bible that was a silent witness to the activities of our home, and a witness that never spoke to us because we were never taught to read it. As I began to read some parts, many doubts were created within me, and I wanted to resolve them. I believed that I should get closer to those who lived what the Bible taught.
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    The Soul of a Priest – Leo Lehmann


    I was born in 1895 in Dublin. I have no joyous memories of my boyhood years. A sense of constant fear overshadowed everything. Fear is bound up with every act of religion with the priest…whether confession, attendance at Sunday Mass, what to eat on fasting days and days of abstinence, hell, heaven, purgatory, or death and the judgment of an angry God.
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    Grace in Christ


    Richard Bennett delivers his testimony of finding the grace of God in true biblical salvation.  It is a story of many years of searching for truth leading to his acceptance of the authority of Scripture alone and true Christianity.  Richard intertwines Bible verses with his story, clearly showing that salvation is found in Christ alone and not in any Church.
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    Richard Bennett in Ireland


    Richard Bennett former Roman Catholic Priest delivers his testimony at the Armagh Free Presbyterian Church in Ireland.
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    From Tradition to Truth


    The compelling testimony of former Roman Catholic Dominican Priest, Richard Bennet.  A devout and well respected missionary priest thoroughly equipped and active in administering of  the sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church discovers their Ineffectiveness. Richard Bennett discovers truth Biblical salvation
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    Richard Bennett’s Testimony


    Richard Bennett delivers his testimony of God grace in his life at Templepatrick Reformed Church
    In County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
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    A Priest’s Story of Conversion to Christ on Location


    Richard Bennett gives a very detailed account of his life story and family history interwoven with  his conversion to Biblical faith and true salvation.
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    Two Former Priests Analyze Catholicism


    In the interview, former priest Henry Nowakowski’s  discusses his life dedicated to the Catholic priesthood.  Henry’s seminary training and experience reveals much of the heart of Papal Rome.  Very informative also was their joint analysis of the Vatican Council II.  However, the highpoint of the interview was Henry’s analyses of the contrast of God’s sovereignty to Roman Catholic claim to the Pope’s infallibility. 
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    Conversation Between Two former Catholic Priests


    Richard Bennett and Richard Cefalu, both formerly Roman Catholic Priest, discuss their love for the Scriptures and provide an insight into it’s life changing power. These men were throughly trained in all things Catholic and had even put into practice the doctrines of Rome yet never fully understood the  true power of God.
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    Ask a Priest: Various Questions about Catholicism from a Biblical Perspective


    Former Dominican priest Richard Bennett fields a question and answers session touching on key Biblical concepts that truly deflate Roman Catholic claims to Christianity.
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    The Way Made Clear – Joseph Cherucheril


    After years of traveling a road set before me from birth, the words of Jesus Christ taken from John 14:6, “I am the way, the truth and the life” put me on a completely new path. My life has been eternally changed and the darkness of deception has been turned to the light of uncompromising truth.
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    Rescued by the Grace of God – Cuthbert Dzingirai


    Painful yoga, endless meditation before candles, hours of labor, empty fasts and undue emphasis on community life that diminished individuality, made me realize that I had joined one of the strictest religious orders for priests. When I joined the order, I was not aware of the differences between secular and regular clergy in the Roman Catholic.
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    God’s Merciful Grace: Before and After My Life as a Priest – J. Ernest Fresques


    As a child, I considered the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church as my basic standard of morality. My relationship to my Creator depended on them—or so I was told. The message I received was that I was all right with God as long as I was all right with the Church.
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    We ought to obey God rather than men-God’s grace in the life of a priest – Nino Tirelli


    Dear brothers, sisters, and friends; in gratitude and praise to the Triune God, and in the joy of our salvation freely granted through the Blood of the Lamb, I rejoice in this opportunity to present my testimony to you, as I remember His promise: “Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven” (Matthew 10:32).
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    To Follow Jesus Without Compromise – Victor J. Affonso


    Political saviors like Gandhi and Nehru had failed in giving true freedom and justice to India’s poor majority. Murder and divisions assailed “independent” India, and so it still is today. All the social works were but a few drops of water in a desert. Yet, there was still one solution left: The words of Jesus kept coming to me during prayer, “…For with God ALL things are possible” (Mark 10:27). “Do not run away!” On another day I heard the words, “Follow My Son — Jesus!” This word finally led me to leave the world and join the Society of Jesus, a missionary order that promised by its very title, its “Spiritual Exercises” and its Constitutions to serve Jesus at any cost and to lead all men to know Him, His Peace, and His Justice.
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    A Catholic Priest Born From Above


    Hello, my name is Henry Nowakowski.  Let me tell you my life story.[1]  I was born two years before the outbreak of WW II.  Mind you, like everyone else, I had no say whatsoever as to when I would be born, where I would be born, to whom I would be born.  No, the Creator God decided those particulars for me.  It was He who decided I would be born in mid August of 1937 to John and Nellie Nowakowski
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    Free Indeed – The Testimony of former Priest Sandy Carson


    From childhood to age forty-four, seventeen years as a Roman priest (1955-1972), the Roman Catholic Church had been the pillar of truth to me, and my infallible guide to God. This “pillar of truth,” the Roman Church, was not constructed solely of the infallible Scriptures, but also constructed of man’s “traditions” apart from Scripture, which were held to be revelations from God, but which in fact contradicted, and were in opposition to the plain teachings of Scripture.
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    Life After the Catholic Priesthood – Dominic Stockford


    It had never occurred to me that I would serve God in an “ordained” capacity, and it certainly never occurred to me that “I would come close to God simply through repentance and belief.” The only understanding of being faithful that I had was from the Catholic Church, and church meant doing works, attending Sunday Mass, and “being good.” And so, when I was almost sixteen and received what I “thought” was a clarion call to serve God as his minister, and because I knew only the Roman Catholic Church, it seemed obvious to me that I had to serve God in that church.
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    Fifty Years in the Church of Rome – Charles Chiniquy


    Charles P. Chiniquy (30 July 1809 – 16 January 1899) was a French Canadian Catholic priest who left the Roman Catholic Church after coming to true Biblical salvation. As a Catholic Priest he had established a Catholic colony in St. Ann Illinois later converting his parish to a Presbyterian Church. He rode the lecture circuit denouncing the Catholic Church. He warned of plots by the Vatican to take control of the United States by importing Catholic immigrants from Ireland, Germany, and France, and suggested that the Vatican was behind the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He authored many books and spent his remaining years trying the rescue the lost held in bondage to the Catholic Church.
    The Priest, the Woman, and the Confessional
    Fifty Years in the Church of Rome
    Forty Years in the Church of Christ
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    Christ Alone is the Way – Henry Gregory Adams


    I was told that by becoming a monk and priest, I could avoid sin and be more certain of my salvation. Because I was sincerely seeking salvation, I entered the Bacillin Order of monks, received the long black robe and an adopted monastic name of “Saint Hilarion the Great,” and made my vows. What great relief and heavenly peace came into my soul when Christ found me, a lost sinner!
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    Saved by the Free Grace of God – Robert V. Julien


    But why did I leave the Roman Catholic Church and her priesthood? People have asked me that question, and I have answered them in this fashion, “Because God told me to leave it.” I tell no lie. God did not speak to me in an audible voice. He spoke to me through His written Word in the book of Revelation where He says very distinctly “…Come out of her, my people…” (Revelation 18:4). The true Christ is calling His people to come out of Roman Catholicism.
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    An Interview with a Former Jesuit Priest


    Former Jesuit Priest Bob Bush is interview by former Dominican Priest Richard Bennet. The men discuss infant baptism, the gift of faith in salvation and a variety of other difficult topics. Bob gives his personal testimony of true Biblical salvation and exposes the conflict caused by contrasting authorities, the Bible and tradition. You can hear the compassion that these men have for reaching precious Catholic people with Gospel.
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    Testimony of Salvation Former Catholic Priest 3 Decades


    Former priest Richard Bennett gives a update of his life story of the latest news of the miracles God has performed in his life since the last time he shared his testimony. It is a heartwarming and powerful account of what God can do for you if you will only listen to God. If you are seeking answers from God or seeking to know God and have the confidence that the moment you die you can be with Christ.
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    A Priest, but a Stranger To God – Joseph Tremblay


    Joseph Tremblay grew up in the Roman Catholic city of Quebec, Canada. He was trained for the priesthood and eventually worked as a Catholic missionary overseas. One day while listening to a gospel message on the radio in South America, Joseph embraced the true Gospel of grace. It was in fulfillment of the scripture that says, “The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.” (John 5:25) He came from darkness into light and for many years has had a tremendous ministry in Canada.
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    A Priest Asks God for Grace – Charles Berry


    While baby-sitting for a Protestant neighbor, I chanced to read a booklet on the subject of “Hell and Eternal Punishment” and was convinced, as I am at this moment, of the terrible reality of hell. Determined that my first obligation was to find a way of drawing closer to God, I entered deeply into Catholic practices.
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    An Interview with a Former French Canadian Priest


    Former French Canadian, Roman Catholic Priest Jospeh Tremblay, is interviewed in Ireland. Jospeh shares his life story begging with his cherished memories of being raised  in a devout Roman Catholic family in Quebec Canada. Inspired as an alter boy he went on to be schooled in Rome and eventual ordained into the priesthood. Although he was extremely devout he reveals that he was actually a stranger to God.
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    A Priest Story – Richard Bennett

    Former Roman Catholic Priest, Richard Bennett shares his life story of coming to true Biblical salvation outside of the Catholic Church. His story covers many years of deep contemplation over the message of the scriptures and his trial as he compared the Bible with official Catholic teaching. Richard clearly shows the joy of the Lord as he comes to biblical salvation at the age of 48 and then his departure from the priesthood.
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    Why I Left the Monastery – Miguel Carvajal


    You and I have no doubt seen at one time or another a man dressed in a long black or white robe, walking along with his hands folded and with a serene expression on his face. Our first thought may have been that we were looking at a “ god, dressed like a man,” to use a common expression in some circles. Actually, it was a Roman Catholic priest, a figure shrouded in mystery.
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    From Friar to Freedom in Christ – Hugh Farrell


    Many years ago, when I decided to become a priest in the Roman Catholic Church, I wanted to walk with Christ. However, because I was born a Catholic, I believed that the Roman Catholic Church was the only true church and that outside of that faith it was almost impossible to be saved.
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    Interview with former Priest Sandy Carson


    In this lively interview, Richard Bennett talks with Sandy Carson who at the age of 44 had been a priest for 17 years. He was working in the very Catholic city of Rayville Louisiana. He began to search the Scriptures to see if indeed what he was doing as a priest really helped people, however, the Scriptures had a remarkable effect on his own life, he became “free indeed”. In the years that followed, Sandy has worked as a missionary in Eastern European countries. There in Orthodox and Catholic nations he has seen men and women come to the Lord, and set free as well.
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    An Irresistible Call – Cipriano Valdes Jaimes


    You and I have no doubt seen at one time or another a man dressed in a long black or white robe, walking along with his hands folded and with a serene expression on his face. Our first thought may have been that we were looking at a “ god, dressed like a man,” to use a common expression in some circles. Actually, it was a Roman Catholic priest, a figure shrouded in mystery.
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    If I Had Stayed in Roman Catholicism, I Would Not Have Found Jesus


    I was born in São Joaquim da Barra, Sao Paulo State in Brazil on the 9th of March, 1924, into a family deeply rooted in Catholicism. My father was Portuguese, and in order not to be an exception to the common rule aligned himself with the admirers of the Lady of Fatima, fate, and good wine.
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    I Received Mercy – Edoardo Labanchi


    The only religion of which I had any knowledge was that of the Roman Catholic Church. So I decided to become a priest and joined the Jesuit order. My superiors seemed to be quite satisfied with me, and I was admitted to take the vows that are usually taken only after two years of probation. This gave me a certain satisfaction, I must admit, but it was only a human satisfaction.
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    I Found Everything When I Found Christ


    While studying theology in England, I began to have serious doubts concerning certain doctrines of my Church, which I found difficult to reconcile with Scripture. These doubts continued to trouble me even after my ordination, but I endeavored to smother them by plunging into my studies and teaching assignments.
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    From the Monastery to the Ministry – José Borras


    It is not enough to be a good Catholic: the important and necessary thing is to be born again in Christ. This has been my experience. When I entered into Christ, I experienced that He not only liberated me from my sins, but also from the heavy load I had to carry being in a Monastic order.
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    From Dead Religion To New Life In Christ – Vincent O’Shaughnessy


    I was born and raised on a farm in West Limerick, Ireland, and the memories of my childhood are happy ones. The youngest of seven children (three sisters and three brothers), I had lots of relatives to visit or to receive as visitors on Sundays after Mass. No one ever missed Mass on Sunday in those days in Ireland, unless they were seriously ill. Such a lapse was designated a mortal sin, meaning deadly and deserving of hell should one die with it unconfessed and unforgiven by a priest. The priests were revered, even idolized. I decided I would like to be a priest myself.
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    There Is Power in Christ’s Atoning Blood – Simon Kottoor


    The love of Christ compels me to give testimony to my conversion from the Roman Catholic priesthood to the born-again life in Jesus Christ. For twenty-five years I was a Roman Catholic priest, strictly following the rituals of a system that enveloped me as a huge and indomitable fortress of darkness and ignorance of the written Word of God.
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    Thou Knowest That I love Thee – Juan T. Sanz


    I felt as if my spiritual and psychological life were collapsing. Under the terms of Roman Catholic doctrine, I lived constantly in a state of “mortal sin,” 1) because I formally doubted my faith, 2) because I did not search for the pardon of this and other sins in the sacrament of penitence, 3) because I searched for biblical truth in Protestantism and not in my Bishop and theology professors, 4) because I rejected the Roman Catholic ecclesiastical hierarchy and authority, 5) because I rejected the doctrinal authority of my church concerning the Bible, 6) because it seemed to me that the aural confession of sins robbed God of the right and power which only He has in His person and the actions of His Son, Jesus Christ, and 7) because the celebration of the Mass seemed to me a supplanting of the merits of Christ on the cross.
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    The Professor’s Methods Did Not Work – Celso Muniz


    I entered seminary for a twelve-year period of study. There I gave myself completely to a life in accordance with the regulations of the Roman Catholic Church. I did all the ascetic exercises, and I also taught asceticism when I was Professor of Ascetic and Mystic Theology and principal of the Metropolitan Seminary at Oviedo in Spain. (Asceticism is the art of mastering “self” and bringing under control all passions, desires, and lusts by severe self-discipline and abstinence, or by inflicting punishments on the body.
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    From Roman Priest to Radio Evangelist – Manuel Garrido Aldama


    My having been a Roman Catholic priest gives my testimony a peculiar aspect, which, I hope, will strengthen the faith of believers and bring others to living faith in Jesus Christ, whom I serve. I was born of long Basque ancestry, in a typical Roman Catholic family in the north of Spain. The Basques have the reputation of being the strictest and most devout of all the Spanish people. We were a family of six boys and one girl; she was the youngest of all. My father, a lawyer, intended that we should have the best education. My mother, a fervent Roman Catholic, took care of our strict religious life.
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    My ‘Damascus Road’ – Francisco Lacueva


    To you, my ex-companions in the priesthood, I say with all my heart, “I am very happy in the new life which I have embraced in Christ and in His Gospel. I would that all of you were touched by this same grace. I shall not forget you in my prayers, and I trust I have a place in those of all who seek the truth sincerely and with an upright heart. Be assured that salvation is a personal matter between God and each one of you.
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    I Was A Blind Leader Of The Blind – Salvatore Gargiulo


    The Roman Catholic Church is really a church that follows Mary rather than Christ. I never stopped urging people to recite the holy Rosary (a monotonous repetition of prayers to Mary). I enthusiastically passed on to others the stories about miracles she is supposed to have performed, which are nothing but the work of the powers of darkness, intended to lead millions of souls astray and to prevent them coming into contact with the Truth.
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    The Truth Set Me Free – Toon Vanhuysse


    There was not a higher calling. To be a priest in the Church of Rome! We were chosen to carry out again the sacrifices of Jesus Christ in the present. We had become offerers of God’s grace; that was my conviction. We had the coveted pretension of being a kind of “maker of blessings.” How I had diverted from the Scriptures! It is dishonoring to God when you consider that Jesus’ perfect and all-sufficient sacrifice is weakened through the “Mass offering” and its depth is not recognized for its eternal salvation power.
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    The Holy Spirit Leads His People – Roman Mazierski


    The questions I am always asked are, “How did it happen that you have turned to the Lord and become a Bible believer, after having been a Roman Catholic priest for many years? Did you read any Protestant books? Did you approach a Protestant pastor to seek his guidance? Or was it that you went to a Protestant meeting during which you became converted?”
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    Jesus Saved Even Me – Jose Manuel De Leon


    I observed, with qualms of conscience, countless rules and laws; I received sacraments and practiced ceremonies, all without knowing Christ as my Savior, or even wishing to read the Word of God. Besides, I could not teach what I was ignoring. Of course, it had never occurred to me to think that I was practicing a ministry contrary to the Holy Scriptures.
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    Out of Hell and Purgatory – Peter Alphonsus Sequin


    For the rest of the afternoon I entreated God on my knees, in the name of His dear Son, to show me the way to go to Him. I opened my New Testament and read, “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast” (Ephesians 2:8-9). Suddenly I saw that salvation was a gift from God, and I looked to the Lord Jesus Christ, and God saved me.
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    God’s Grace in New Guinea – Jacob Van der Velden


    God in His love and mercy and being full of forgiveness came into my life and a miracle happened. A Roman Catholic priest in his late fifties would never have naturally begun a conversation with a Reformed missionary. The priest that I was would surely not! I had never seen a Reformed missionary, had never spoken to one, and yet I somehow did talk to one. An invisible Hand intervened.
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    New Life for a Jesuit Priest – José Rico


    Christ became my “only” Savior, for none other had died on the Cross for me. He also became my “sufficient Savior” because His blood is all-powerful to wash my sins from my soul. How miserably the rites, ceremonies, and human traditions of Romanism had failed to cleanse my soul for God.
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    I Was Blind, Now I See – Jose A. Fernandez


    One can well understand the hold that the Roman Catholic Church has over the soul of the Spanish people, particularly over the candidates for the priesthood, being brought up since early boyhood in such an atmosphere and with such ideas. That may explain the reason why in past centuries Protestants were burned at the stake and at present they are being persecuted in my native Spain.
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    My Path Into Christ’s Joy – Charles A. Bolton


    I remember on one occasion working in a hayfield from morning until evening under a burning sun, and then, weary and with my skin seeming on fire, going off to a clear blue pool in a shaded woodland to throw off my sweaty clothes and to bathe in the refreshing waters, which were like a miracle of healing and made me feel a new man. That is how I have felt after leaving the Roman Catholic Church, after working like a slave for her and sweating in her service.
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    From Works to the Light of the Gospel – John Preston


    I would like to make sure that while writing this testimony I do not bear any grudge against anyone. On the contrary, it is “my heart’s desire and prayer to God” (Romans 10:1) that many Roman Catholic people might see the light of the Gospel as I have seen it and come to rejoice in the knowledge of Jesus as their own personal Savior.
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    Twenty-Three Years In The Jesuit Order – Luis Padrosa


    After living forty-three years a sincere Roman Catholic, fifteen of intense ecclesiastical training, ten as a priest and a popular preacher to great multitudes, and twenty-three of religious life in the Jesuit Order, I have arrived at the conviction that the Roman Catholic Church is not the true church of Jesus Christ.
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    Living Water and Peace with God – Mariano Rughi


    One day, during an intimate conversation with a Franciscan monk, I had a revelation that shocked me. I discovered that he was going through the same painful experiences regarding the assurance of salvation as those through which I had gone. I began to ask myself, “If the Church of Rome is the true Church of Christ, how is it that one of its best followers, a man of integrity and a disciplined life, is uncertain of his salvation and is suffering intense spiritual perplexity?
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    The Gospel of Grace in Jesus Christ – Thoufic Khouri


    So the miracle happened, that which I needed so much: a spiritual birth. I became a new creature, a child of God. Outwardly, I was still a Roman Catholic. I still wore my priestly garb. The books in my room were still all Roman Catholic. Inwardly, however, I was a Roman Catholic no longer. Inwardly, I had become a Christian. .
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    From Priest to Preacher – J. M. A. Hendriksen


    For more than 15 years I was a friar, but however important that was in the eyes of people, it was impossible for me to find peace and happiness. I could not, nor can I, live happily and in peace without knowing for certain that my sins are forgiven, that I may be a child of God. The Roman Catholic Church has never been able to give me that assurance, not even when I was a priest and friar.
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    The Word of God Came to My Rescue – Joseph Lulich


    My name is Joseph Lulich. I am glad to be able to share with you what the grace of God has done in my life. I speak to you as an older man who has lived most of his life as an ex-Roman Catholic priest, one who once 
    served faithfully and sincerely the Roman church for fourteen years, and who then served as a missionary used by God to spread His glorious Gospel in one part of our needy world.
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