Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to Catholicism

by Scott Hahn and Kimberly Hahn

Book Overview

The well-known and very popular Catholic couple, Scott and Kimberly Hahn, have been constantly travelling and speaking all over North America for the last few years about their conversion to the Catholic Church. Now these two outstanding Catholic apologists tell in their own words about the incredible spiritual journey that led them to embrace Catholicism.

Scott Hahn was a Presbyterian minister, the top student in his seminary class, a brilliant...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898704782
• ISBN13: 9780898704785
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: Ignatius Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Protestant vs Catholic beliefs

This book was talked about in the RCIA class as Scott Hahn’s conversion from Protestant to Catholic. What I didn’t know is that Scott discusses in detail the specific topics that Protestants believe about Catholics. He discusses specific bible versus and explains the 2 different view points. He comes to some conclusions that shock him. He is in a masters program studying to be a Protestant Pastor. He anguishes over some decisions he has to make knowing that family and friends may desert him. As an RCIA sponsor, I can tell you this is a common story. I didn’t read this book until after I had already sponsored 3 people in RCIA. I am a convert also. I sure wish that I had read this book before I had sponsored anyone.

Very good book

I went through the rcia program and my sponcer gave me this book but i didnt read it til about a year later. very good loved how they wrote what they went through.

Shouldn’t have waited

I had heard of this book and never put thought into reading. I offered this to a friend going through RCIA. Great book. I’m glad it’s in my library

Pray before you read this book! What a journey!

My husband and I are 76 and 70 and have been strong "Bible" Christian believers and teachers. For the last 33 years we have been very active in Church and in the best Protestant Christian Bible Studies in national and international classes. We are becoming Catholic with NO RESERVATIONS! Something we never thought could or would happen to us. This book will open your mind to TRUTHS you have never seen before. My beautiful Christian husband read this book non-stop, came in the room, closed the book, put it down beside me, looked at me with his eyes brimming with tears and said, "They are right!" Simple as that. I give this book to others but I tell them, "Pray because it will change your life!" You next need your Bible, Keatings books, and a Catechism. Get ready for a new but very exciting and blessed life. You will fall in love with Jesus all over again. The Catholic Church will become your Rome Sweet Home! See you in heaven. Terry

Clear and compelling testimony to biblical Catholicism

I lost count of how many people recommended that I read "Rome Sweet Home". Frankly, I didn't want to. Call it stubborn pride, whatever. Anyway, I finally broke down and read it this past summer. Since then I've re-read it four more times. Now I see why so many people recommended it. This book is truly amazing. The Hahns use their own journey to show how their commitment to Jesus Christ and the Bible is what ultimately led them down an entirely unforseeable path towards Rome. Out of obedience, they became Catholic AND evangelical. Now I find myself in the same situation. After intense study and prayer, I will be received into the Catholic Church tomorrow night. My former pastor now tells me he's even thinking about becoming Catholic himself, and that's after spending the last two years trying to persuade me not to. Thank you Scott and Kimberly Hahn, from the bottom of my heart. But most of all, thank you Lord.

Free your mind and the truth will follow!

I cannot say enough good about this book or the Hahns! As a self described "generic Christian" for many years, I found this book amazingly readable and very fair. Scott has definitely done his research. Although this book was not intended to dispel all the myths about the Catholic faith, it did answer a lot of my questions. I read all the reviews and was pleased to note that there were very few criticisms. Those that disagreed by claiming that his conversion was "intellectual" and not spiritual or that "he never really understood the reformed faith" are missing the point. If you study the subject with an open mind and heart, you can't escape how much sense the Catholic faith makes! I think part of the reason that these critics are so nasty and defensive is the fact that they are not only having to defend their position against the Catholic church, but also against the other 25,000 different Protestant denominations. No wonder they feel insecure! On a personal note to ALL Christians: Keep and open mind and heart and study your faith objectively and know WHY you believe what you believe! Too many Christians, Catholic AND Protestants are just "going through the motions" and do not fully understand their faith. I recently made the decision to convert to the Catholic Church and it wasn't a decision made lightly. I am continuing to study so that I can not only grow stronger in my convictions, but to be able to defend my faith. I highly recommend this book to cradle Catholics as well as recent converts or anyone who has even a passing interest in the faith. God Bless you all!

Very readable, biblical & challenging for me as a Baptist

I was very skeptical when I first began reading this book, but then I couldn't put it down. As a Bible-believing Christian myself, I would strongly recommend it, especially for anyone who's willing to listen to and learn from a very sensible presentation of why a die-hard Protestant like Hahn would feel compelled by the Bible to become a Catholic. Even though it is clearly written and charitably argued, it's probably not the best book to give someone who prefers public debates or polemical writings, like a previous reviewer who seems to be looking for a fight. (Just for the record, his critique was not only saracastic, but unreliable--James White told me himself that Scott Hahn NEVER agreed to a debate him. Likewise, if he truly read the book, he'd know that the Hahns went to a non-denominational Evangelical seminary--Gordon-Conwell is not Presbyterian. Oh well.) In my opinion, any sincere Bible-believer who reads this book with an open mind will be challenged, as I am, but certainly not disappointed.

Little wonder anti-Catholics hate this book

Although I'm not a Roman Catholic, I am a reasonable person and a devout Bible-believing Christian, capable of recognizing an airtight biblical case for Catholicism. That's exactly what I found in Rome Sweet Home. For the first time, I also now recognize something else that's even more disturbing, and that is, how foolish I've been in attacking the faith of Roman Catholics with the same kind of blind arrogance exhibited by Pastor Whalen in his review (see below). We need to be honest with ourselves, as Bible Christians, and admit that we have never been able to take Catholics seriously as fellow-believers, mostly because we have never allowed ourselves to be exposed to a sustained presentation of the biblical basis for Catholic beliefs, like Hahn does in Rome Sweet Home. No wonder Pastor Whalen admits to feeling "overwhelmed" and "sick to my stomach". Humble pie has a way of doing that.