About a year ago or so, I wrote an essay explaining the journey I’d been on for 5-6 years and how I’d ended up becoming Catholic. Since then, mostly due to my wife’s concerns, we spent 6-7 months attending an Orthodox Church (OCA) and sitting in on catechumen classes so as to learn more about Orthodox Christian faith and practice, as a possible alternative to Catholicism. This summer I spent quite a bit of time wrestling with the differences between East and West and figuring out where I needed to be. In the end, I came to the conclusion that I needed to remain Roman Catholic.

If you are curious at all about the process I went through and what I learned, I’ve updated the essay I wrote that explains my pilgrimage. This is the “short” version (only 17 pages of text in MS Word) since there is much more that could be said. It is available in a more or less “final” version at http://coffeeklatch.pfitzinger.net/essay/.

While it’s taken that much longer to decide in a more permanent sense where I needed to be, my knowledge of the Christian faith is broader and richer than it would have been otherwise and I’ve grown more because of it. If you have questions or are just curious about my story, I always welcome discussion, whether in the form of comments or other more discussion-based formats. But please do read my essay first, so you know where I’m coming from and what I’ve been through. After that, discussion would be great.