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.

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
Testimony of a Former Catholic Priest
Richard Bennett’s Testimony
Testimony of a Catholic Priest
Conversation Between Two Former Priests
Two former Catholic Priests and a Nun Testify of Conversion to Christianity
Two Former Priests Analyze Catholicism
Why Did 50 Priests Leave the Roman Catholic Church?
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.
A Catholic Priest is Biblically Saved
A Priests Story on Location by Richard Bennett
An Overview of a Testimony by Richard Bennett Part 1
Questions and Answers by Richard Bennett Part 2
From Death to Life – Carlo Fumagalli

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

I entered the Salesian Order at the age of fifteen, and in due time, I was ordained to the priesthood.
My Encounter With God – Guido Scalzi

I Was Not Antagonistic To The Truth – Bruno Bottesin

Pilgrimage From Rome – Bartholomew F. Brewer

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

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

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

The Soul of a Priest – Leo Lehmann

Grace in Christ

Richard Bennett in Ireland

From Tradition to Truth

Richard Bennett’s Testimony

In County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
A Priest’s Story of Conversion to Christ on Location

Two Former Priests Analyze Catholicism

Conversation Between Two former Catholic Priests

Ask a Priest: Various Questions about Catholicism from a Biblical Perspective

The Way Made Clear – Joseph Cherucheril

Rescued by the Grace of God – Cuthbert Dzingirai

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

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

To Follow Jesus Without Compromise – Victor J. Affonso

A Catholic Priest Born From Above

Free Indeed – The Testimony of former Priest Sandy Carson

Life After the Catholic Priesthood – Dominic Stockford

Fifty Years in the Church of Rome – Charles Chiniquy

Fifty Years in the Church of Rome
Forty Years in the Church of Christ
Christ Alone is the Way – Henry Gregory Adams

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

An Interview with a Former Jesuit Priest

Testimony of Salvation Former Catholic Priest 3 Decades

A Priest, but a Stranger To God – Joseph Tremblay

A Priest Asks God for Grace – Charles Berry

An Interview with a Former French Canadian Priest

A Priest Story – Richard Bennett

Why I Left the Monastery – Miguel Carvajal

From Friar to Freedom in Christ – Hugh Farrell

Interview with former Priest Sandy Carson

An Irresistible Call – Cipriano Valdes Jaimes

If I Had Stayed in Roman Catholicism, I Would Not Have Found Jesus

I Received Mercy – Edoardo Labanchi

I Found Everything When I Found Christ

From the Monastery to the Ministry – José Borras

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

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

Thou Knowest That I love Thee – Juan T. Sanz

The Professor’s Methods Did Not Work – Celso Muniz

From Roman Priest to Radio Evangelist – Manuel Garrido Aldama

My ‘Damascus Road’ – Francisco Lacueva

I Was A Blind Leader Of The Blind – Salvatore Gargiulo

The Truth Set Me Free – Toon Vanhuysse

The Holy Spirit Leads His People – Roman Mazierski

Jesus Saved Even Me – Jose Manuel De Leon

Out of Hell and Purgatory – Peter Alphonsus Sequin

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

New Life for a Jesuit Priest – José Rico

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

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

From Works to the Light of the Gospel – John Preston

Twenty-Three Years In The Jesuit Order – Luis Padrosa

Living Water and Peace with God – Mariano Rughi

The Gospel of Grace in Jesus Christ – Thoufic Khouri

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

The Word of God Came to My Rescue – Joseph Lulich

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.