How God Hauled Me Kicking and Screaming Into the Catholic Church, Kevin shares — with humor, humility, and brilliant insight — the stories of God working in his life. When you finish this book, I have no doubt that you will find yourself not just challenged but empowered to open your heart wide to God’s transformative grace and the fullness of the Christian faith.”
— Shane Kapler, author of Through, With, and In Him: The Prayer Life of Jesus and How to Make It Our Own
“To read How God Hauled Me Kicking and Screaming Into the Catholic Church is to experience the joy of the Gospel! No heavy tome of theology, no obtuse reflection on the interior life this. It is nonetheless theologically grounded and no less reflective of the joy-filled, Holy Spirit-fueled struggle of allowing oneself to be transformed by grace. I found myself nodding in agreement, smiling, and sometimes laughing out loud as I saw similarities between my conversion to the Catholic faith and Kevin’s story. Whether you are a ‘cradle’ Catholic, a convert to the Church, a non-Catholic Christian, a practitioner of another faith tradition, or have no faith tradition at all, I encourage you to read this book and, God willing, be transformed.”
— Brother Rex Anthony Norris, spiritual adviser to the Coming Home Network International
How God Hauled Me
Kicking and Screaming
Into the Catholic Church
How God Hauled Me
Kicking and Screaming
Into the
Catholic Church
Kevin Lowry
Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division
Our Sunday Visitor, Inc.
Huntington, Indiana 46750
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Dedicated to my parents,
Margaret and Douglas Lowry,
for the firm foundation they gave me in life;
to my beloved wife, Kathi,
who helps keep me on the right path;
and to all our children and grandchildren;
whose lives I pray are transformed through Christ.
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