Book Review: Rome Sweet Home

Properly understanding Christianity is an immense task. My copy of the Bible is more than 1,000 pages long. It contains books written across many centuries by many different authors. No matter what someone tells you, reading it intelligently is no simple task.

Scott and Kimberly Hahn were strong fundamentalist Christians, claiming that only faith in God is necessary for salvation and that only the Bible contained the Truth. Catholicism, to them, was an evil institution full of idol worshipers. Like so many fundamentalist Christians I have met, they had a sincere and noble desire to save souls from Catholicism.

But then Scott slowly realized that, as a Presbyterian minister and scholar, Scripture itself was leading him somewhere he did not want to go. As a man of integrity and with a deep desire for the truth, he followed his investigation to its logical conclusion: Catholicism.

In this amazing book Scott and Kim tell their conversion story. They tell of the extreme difficulty with which they accepted things they could not deny. One after another, the objections to Catholicism fell under scrutiny. Scott and Kimberly came to realize that the Catholic Church had something to offer that the fundamentalists were missing.

Scott said it numerous times in the book: If Catholicism is wrong, it is really wrong. But if Catholicism is right, it is really right. No other Church makes the bold claim of being the "one true Church," established by Christ himself. All other Christian Churches share in the truth given to us by Christ through the Catholic Church. Yet that is what the outstanding scripture scholars Scott and Kimberly Hahn were forced to admit.

This book will strengthen the faith of Catholics. It will also, I hope, cause fundamentalist Christians to try to understand Catholicism as understood by Catholics themselves. It is an exciting, emotional read.

This is an excellent and quick read. I suggest you check it out.