Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to Catholicism by Scott Hahn & Kimberly Hahn

Author:Scott Hahn & Kimberly Hahn
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Religion, Catholicism, Memoir, Apologetics, Christianity
ISBN: 9780898704785
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Published: 1993-08-01T04:00:00+00:00

Kimberly:

Our move to Milwaukee was a move away from friends, family and church to a foreign place for both of us. We did not know anyone there before we arrived.

Though we went to a Protestant church together, I had the time that Scott didn’t have to develop friendships there. His involvement in a Catholic university gave him more opportunities to meet Catholic friends there. So we continued to grow apart from each other in some ways, developing a number of separate friendships.

Most of my time was involved with the care of, our two little sons. As we became more aware of the magnitude of the abortion and pornography industries around us—nine abortion clinics and five “adult” bookstores in downtown Milwaukee alone—I became very involved in activism. Consequently, I had very little time and less desire than time to study. I hoped that someone at Marquette would do what no one else so far had been able to do—stop Scott’s defection to Rome.

I never suspected that Scott would move the date of being received into the Catholic Church from 1990 up to 1986. It was only ten days before Easter when he came from his study and said, “Kimberly, Gerry and Leslie are joining the Church this Easter Vigil. I need you to hear my heart: Ever since I began going to Mass at the University, I have ached, ached to receive, the Lord in the Eucharist. And I am now so convicted of the truth of the Catholic Church that if I do not join the Church and receive the Lord in this way, I believe I’ll be disobeying the Lord. We both know that delayed obedience is disobedience.”

I was devastated! He had promised: “no sooner than 1990”! Yet I could see his deep conflict, between his promise on the one hand and his deepening conviction on the other. I could not stand in the way of his obedience to the Lord, no matter what questions it raised for his career or for our family’s well-being. Scott needed to grant me the space necessary for the Holy Spirit to open my heart, and I needed to release him from the promise of waiting until I was ready to join him so that he could move ahead in obedience to the Lord as he understood it.

That night I wrote in my prayer journal about the intense loneliness and sense of betrayal I was feeling. I wrote, “Lord, to whom can I go about my deep hurt?” Somewhat sarcastically, I added, “And don’t tell me Mary and the saints!!”

Easter was just ten days away. That meant we had only ten days to call family and let them know what we had basically kept quiet. We had just ten days to call theologian friends in the hopes they could unconvince him before he took the plunge into the Church. (The professors were put in a very difficult position—they were trying to answer objections Scott had spent years studying. But the fact that so

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