Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

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READ ST. PATRICK’S CONVERSION STORY.

(Oh, great. Now that I’ve recovered from having "BadgersBadgersBadgers" and Oklahoma! running through my head, now there’s Creedence Clearwater Revival doing "Green River.")

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

7 thoughts on “Happy St. Patrick’s Day!”

  2. You’ve recovered from the badgerbadgerbadger song???…I can’t get that thing out of my head…admittedly, it would help if my son didn’t ask me to play it over and over…please don’t allow your guest bloggers to put me through this again 😛
    Actually, you all would have had an even bigger laugh if you had seen me trying to do that badger dance next to the computer (nearly whipped my sons eye out with me elbow!)…it’s SO exhausting!
    Have you ever listened to this ? ->http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view.php?id=2561
    first time I heard it i thought it was so funny…second time, it was still funny
    (you have to click on ‘watch this movie’ button, i think)
    God Bless.

  3. Jimmy:
    Nice article about the Catholicism of Saint Patrick. Unfortunately, many of the things you note simply lack historical veracity. For instance, there is absolutely no historical evidence that Patrick was sent on his mission by the Pope or his representative. These details are not noted, save for Chronicles written several hundred years after Patrick’s death. Nor is there any proof whatsoever that the Pope later confirmed Patrick’s orthodoxy.
    Everything else you note about Patrick’s beliefs could be claimed by any so-called “Anglo-Catholic.”
    I agree Patrick was Catholic, but evidence for this, rather, lies in the fact that Patrick was most certainly a member of what was considred the “orthodox Church,” and this Church we know, from contemporary sources, was Catholic. Patrick’s ties to Rome are simply unverifiable.

  4. Wasn’t there some similar blarney claiming that there were proto-baptists at the council of Nicea, or Carthage or some such?
    I also heard “Green River” on the radio this morning! What are the chances???

  6. Gezz, Jimmy; I was hoping you’d have proved me wrong by now. If not, then I think your article should be revised accordingly.
    Just a thought.

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