Personal Journey from Judaism to Catholicism

Many of you know me as that Jew that got

saved by the Russian Orthodox Church.

From nineteen eighty-seven to twenty twenty-five, this is true.

But in those years, the church's leadership began to

change its view.

We all know that any form of organized power attracts corruption

that ultimately degrades the system's original intent.

Communism, for example. It has fantastic intents, but

has repeatedly metastasized horrifying results.

All churches exist in a fallen world.

Thus, to the surprise of no one, a church's

leadership can grow askew. A church can be

divided into three categories: leadership, message,

and community.

What happens when the Russian Orthodox Church's leadership begins to wage

conquest against the very biblical message it once

promoted and attacks its members with

means that look psychopathic? Well, yours truly

becomes a Catholic.

As Christians, we are called to continually right wrongs,

confront demonic rot with biblical truth, and

strive to please Jesus Christ. This calling is the

force of good that resists the continual

evil-driven erosion of our fallen world.

Being a Christian is a process,

something we do daily, like a clean kitchen.

We have to clean it again and again and after every

single meal.

When I was a Jewish kid, I knew there was

something sickeningly wrong with Judaism.

I tried to find the light within the leadership of the

synagogue, the message from the Talmud, and the

community of my upbringing. It wasn't there.

Instead, I found light for the first time in the

Russian

Orthodox Christian Church in America.

It was my home.

But as of late, that light flickered away as

they have unfortunately contorted themselves into a

Jewish-fearing narration. Sometimes you leave the

church, but sometimes the church leaves you.

Why then am I now Catholic? The Catholic Church's

deep piety, its worldwide reach, its formation of Western

civilization, and with its founding upon St.

Peter the Rock, it underwrites a strength of

character and a welcoming community of which

I can belong.

I enter the Catholic Church neither blindly nor

silently, but to worship Christ among His people,

receive His grace, speak the truth, and oppose whatever

disfigures His face within the Church. Amen.