On my own road to the Catholic Church, the friend whose opinion I was most concerned about was my good Baptist friend Josh’s - but when I confessed my inclinations to him, he most graciously told me that wherever God was leading me, he would support me. My own family and friends have also been very supportive of me. It testifies to me, and rightly so, that faith in Christ is the highest treasure, whatever form that faith might take. About half a dozen of them turned out for the Confirmation Mass - a Tridentine High Mass, at that - including parents and grandparents. Jason’s Baptist family, by all appearances, was remarkably supportive of his decision. I can’t take much credit for converting him: he was already very far along his journey when I met him, and only had some nagging questions I was able to help him through.

I met him about a year ago, working at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, where he has been my officemate. Jason was raised Southern Baptist, but as I was, had been being drawn for a long time to the history and liturgy of Catholic Church. Baker of the Diocese of Birmingham in Alabama, at Our Lady Help of Christians Church in Huntsville. Yesterday my friend Jason Parker was confirmed in the Catholic Church by our bishop, the Most Rev. (Left to right) Joseph Richardson, Jason Parker, Bishop Robert Baker.

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