Reddit mentions of Born Fundamentalist Born Again Catholic

The Trent Horn book, "Why we're catholic" found here is supposed to be a really excellent resource; and since it's so new, you know it's current! Only $3.99 for a kindle copy, it seems. Born again Catholic is another book that gets recommended a lot.

But my personal favorite (she could read it in a weekend) is Rome Sweet Home by Scott Hahn. It presents his and his wife's conversion in alternating chapters written by him and his wife. I can also recommend Surprised by Truth as a good source of testimonials.

For you, I would recommend Crossing the Tiber, which will give you some strategies and more understanding of her experience during the conversion.

Of course: You should also involve a priest as soon as she's ready. Try to talk to your priest in advance, he might be a good contact, and it's also a good way to find out how he treats potential converts. Try to figure out who recently converted at your parish and ask them about the RCIA program just to make sure that it's a decent one. It's worth driving to a different parish to get a good RCIA group, remember that the two of you can always fix the RCIA program at your parish when you're both catholic and that now is a good time for her to get Excellent help, not to try to fix things while participating in them.

I can also recommend the following podcasts:

Catholic Stuff you should know: Four priests in two teams, one (up until recently) in Rome and the other in Denver. The Rome guys are Fr. John Nepil and Fr. Michael Rapp and the guys in Denver are Fr. Nathan Goebbel and Fr. Michael O'Laughlin. You really get a sense for their personalities etc. and they talk about Catholic topics with depth, humor, humility, and joy. They're all priests, they drink scotch, they talk about some topic (in the title of each post). It can be kinda bullshitty at times, but theres almost always something good to take away!

Lanky Guys : A priest (Fr. Peter Musset) and a lay theologian (Dr. Scott Powell) talk about the Sunday readings in DEPTH, and I mean in DEPTH, but they keep it light. They make connections I can't even dream of, really good if you want to ponder the Sunday readings (or if you want to sound smart at bible study!)

Fr. Mike Schmitz: Sunday sermons (posted the tues/wed after he gives them. He's super good at making it sorta age-appropriate for college students, but he's not talking down to them, so others will definitely get good stuff out of it. He's also very good at "awe", where most of the previous ones are more academic/conversational. He's also got a youtube channel that's got great content, and where you realize just how attractive he is.

Word on Fire (sermons): Other Sunday sermons, always 15 mins, always have to listen to them twice. They're PACKED. Bishop Barron is my spirit animal. He's a genius. If you want to get a flavor for him, you should listen to the Three dogs north podcasts that he's in ("the one with Fr. Barron")

Word on Fire (Show): Topics-based show with Bishop Barron, one of the recent ones about "The five things we can learn from the woman at the well" is INSANELY good, maybe the best spiritual podcast episode I've ever listened to. Sometimes these can seem very produced, but there's always good content, and I love how evenhanded Bishop Barron is.

Catholic Answers Live: A radio show that's turned into a podcast for easier consumption. You can choose to listen to them more or less based on the topics in the title. I find the whole program to be very well produced, well researched, and orthodox; occasionally a bit cringey when, for some reason, the host doesn't understand the caller's question properly. They have a couple of other offshoot shows (Hearts and Minds (super meh on this one, basically if you want to complain about "the culture" with very little apologetic content this is your podcast), Catholic answers focus (recommended, excellent interviews, though I'm not sure what'll happen to it now that Pat Coffin left CA) that are all right.

Pints with Aquinas: Matt Fradd does a topics-based podcast based on individual excerpts from the Summa, really excellent, light hearted, and still quite deep work. He occasionally has guests on. Sometimes I think he takes the trope a bit into annoying territory, but it never last very long before he gets back into the meat. I really like this podcast, and it's an excellent one for apologetics.

Mr. Syme has offered a good list to begin. I would like to follow that list up with a number of other good works:

• The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton
  
  
• Theology and Sanity by F.J. Sheed
  
  
• Born Fundamentalist, Born Again Catholic by David Currie
  
  The NAB you have is an approved translation, but I highly recommend using the RSVCE.
  
  It is certainly a good idea to buy Sacred Scriptures and the Catechism right now. These two pieces of literature are essential to any Catholic's library. The Missal is very good for your devotional life, especially if you are converting and have no prior experience with our Church.
  
  Be sure to balance your reading of non-fiction works with some good, rousing fiction as well. The brain needs to find itself in fantasy every now and then. Chesterton, Tolkien, Lewis, and Waugh are all good authors.

Formal Pentecostal, Scott Hahn for everything and also Born Fundamentalist, Born Again Catholic from David Currie was a good read during my RCIA prcoess. I think coming from our denomination you might appreciate it. I don't think it's a super heavy book, but more light reading which is cool.

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