"When I converted to Catholicism some 26 years ago, my Catholic wife rejoiced. But I could imagine my friends from graduate school saying, 'Kurland has finally gone around the bend.' It was strictly a top-down-to-Jesus process, head not heart - no visions, no voices. After several years in a 12-Step program, the term 'Higher Power' as a substitute for 'God' had begun to annoy me - Orwellian doublespeak, a device to enable atheists to do the 12 Steps.
"I suppose it was the Holy Spirit that led me to Frank Morison's book Who Moved the Stone?, which convinced me that the Resurrection really did happen. But there were other miracles, acts not explained by science, about which I had to learn to believe. The most difficult was that of the Eucharist, the change from bread and wine to the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ.
"The wise old priest who was instructing me asked: 'If you can believe
in one miraculous event, the Resurrection, why not others?' And he
explained the philosophical categories of substance, accidents, and
transubstantiation. But it didn't work. What did was my experience at a
40-Hours Adoration liturgy, attendance required for catechumens."
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The Catholic Thing: his Physicist Believes in Miracles (5 FEB 22)
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