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The thirty-ninth episode of The Journey Home is titled “Rick Ricciardi: An Assemblies of God Minister Who Returned To The Catholic Church” and aired August 28, 1998. It can be viewed online here.
This guy went from Catholicism to Protestantism and back again. What brought him back to Catholicism, apparently, was the awakening of his childhood indoctrination by being offered Communion at his brother’s wedding Mass.
So far, our breakdown of the guests’ religious state before conversion to Catholicism looks like this.
- Repeat Guest: 2
- Serious Christian: 26
- Always Catholic: 8
- Lax Christian: 1
- Non-Christian, but religious: 2
- Non-believer, but not very skeptical: 0
- Skeptic: 0
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