Rome Sweet Home
by Scott Hahn & Kimberly Hahn
Scott Hahn was a Presbyterian minister and, by his own account, no friend of Rome. He knew his Bible cold. Then the Bible started arguing back. Kimberly, his wife and the daughter of a Presbyterian minister, shared his convictions, and she did not take kindly to where his study was heading.
This book tells both stories, in alternating chapters. Scott's chapters follow the questions that wouldn't leave him alone: covenant, the Eucharist, the authority of the Church. Kimberly's chapters tell the other side, honestly. She writes about the fear, the grief and the resistance she felt as her husband moved toward Rome while she held back. They didn't arrive at the same speed, and the book doesn't pretend they did. That candor gives it its punch. A conversion can strain a marriage, and here you watch two people work through it.
It suits Protestant inquirers, spouses in OCIA whose partners aren't Catholic, and anyone who suspects that conversion involves the heart as well as the head. It reads fast and personal, more like a long testimony than a textbook.
Key Takeaways
- The biblical questions that moved a Presbyterian minister to Rome.
- A wife's honest account of resisting her husband's conversion.
- How covenant theology leads to the Eucharist and the Church.
- That conversion can unfold at different speeds in one family.
It shows two Protestant believers working through the questions that led them to the Catholic Church.
