L'expérience de juifs et non-juifs de toutes formes de vie qui ont trouvé leur maison spirituelle dans l'Église Catholique.
Jacob Weksler was raised a Catholic and became a priest. He later learned he was Jewish and came to Israel, where he found ultra-Orthodox relatives, a mixed welcome at a kibbutz ulpan and a confrontation with the Law of Return.
Lire la suite : The Catholic Priest who Discovered he was a Jew
As right wing political atheists of a Jewish ancestry, we didn't fit in with anyone around us: not with Catholics, not with the sprinkling of Protestants, certainly not with Orthodox religious Jews in full regalia, nor Reform Jews, nor Zionist atheist Jews, nor left-wing non-Zionist Jews. Later, as a Catholic, I realized that my desire to belong to an identifiable group forever and ever had a psychological as well as a theological reason.
Lire la suite : Saved! Ronda Chervin's Conversion to the Catholic Faith
Finding My Jewish Past and My Catholic Present - Growing up in New York City in a very strict Catholic home I began questioning the doctrines of our faith at a very young age. Little did I know that this very same quest brought me to a moment in my life in which I would have all these questions answered for me by G-d, Himself!
I am an Orthodox Jew by adoption. That is to say, I am a convert to Judaism, according to the halacha. I live in the company of other Orthodox Jews, with my husband and four children, in a religious community in Israel. I also love Jesus and the Gospel message, which I am still learning, and this means that I live my faith life mostly inwardly.
Having been raised in a Conservative Jewish home in suburban Toronto, I was a regular attendee at synagogue on Sabbaths and High Holidays. My father is a Holocaust survivor from Poland and my mother’s family escaped the pogroms in Russia. Both settled here in Canada and raised my sister and myself in a Jewish and Yiddish speaking environment where all of our friends were Jewish and Israel was our raison d’être. Christianity was the religion of the outsiders, the faith of anti-semites and Jew-haters, the creed of the Crusaders, Inquisitors, Persecutors, and Nazis. Yet my mother would remind me continually that "Jesus was a Jew"...
Je m’appelle Miryam Leah. J’ai 35 ans, je suis juive, italienne, d’une famille hassidique ultra-orthodoxe (loubavich, mon père est le shaliah – envoyé – du Rebbe) et maintenant, depuis 8 ans, catholique et sœur dominicaine.
Here is a translation of Magdi Allam’s account of his conversion to Catholicism. The formerly Muslim journalist was baptized by Benedict XVI at Saturday's Easter Vigil Mass 2008 in St. Peter's Basilica.
Aaron Jean-Marie Lustiger, cardinal and archbishop, died on August 5th, 2007, aged 80. At the funeral of Jean-Marie Lustiger, at Notre Dame de Paris on August 10th, his second cousin Jonas Moses-Lustiger read a psalm in Hebrew and placed on the coffin a jar of earth that had been gathered on the Mount of Olives. Then another cousin, Arno Lustiger, bent over the coffin to recite Kaddish. Only when those things were done was the body of Cardinal Lustiger carried inside the cathedral, where Catholic panoply took over.
Ceci est l'histoire de mon retour à l'Eglise Catholique. Je vais essayer d'expliquer comment mon cheminement avec le Seigneur m'a conduit à cette décision importante et difficile mais qui me met dans la paix et la joie. Je m'adresse à mes amis Chrétiens Evangéliques aussi bien que Juifs Messianique en Israël et particulièrement à ceux qui n'arrivent pas à croire qu'on peut être un vrai croyant et un catholique en même temps. J'écris aussi ces lignes comme un témoignage personnel adressé aux nombreux, bons et fidèles amis qui pourraient être intéressés par mon chemin de foi. C'est à eux que je dédie cet essai et je prie que tout cela nous aide à grandir dans l'unité de cet amour et de cette adoration du Roi des rois.