Notice: Function _load_textdomain_just_in_time was called incorrectly. Translation loading for the health-check domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /nas/content/live/brownpelican/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6121

Notice: Function _load_textdomain_just_in_time was called incorrectly. Translation loading for the mfn-opts domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /nas/content/live/brownpelican/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6121
Peter Kreeft Comes Home, by Luis E. Lugo – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Peter Kreeft Comes Home, by Luis E. Lugo

Archbishop Slams Award for Dick Durbin: He Violates the “Right to Life of the Unborn”, by Steven Ertelt 
September 30, 2025
Saint of the Day for October 1: Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
October 1, 2025

By Luis E. Lugo, The Catholic Thing, October 1, 2025

Luis E. Lugo is a retired college professor and foundation executive who writes from Rockford, Michigan.

Chesterton once said that there are two ways of getting home. One of them is to stay there. The other is to walk round the whole world till we come back to the same place. Since the Church is our true home, we could say that the first is a good description of a cradle Catholic, the second of a revert like me.

But there is a third way of getting home: to discover it for the first time. That describes converts to Catholicism who were reared in other religious traditions. That is the road the eminent Catholic philosopher Peter Kreeft travelled into the Church, as he delightfully recounts in his recently released autobiography, From Calvinist to Catholic. …