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Observant readers will notice a new tab at the top of the blog. It links to a new page on which I try to give an answer to the question of why I am Catholic. Not an easy question, perhaps, but I made an attempt at providing an answer.

Why this page? Because I find every now and then that people hold such strange, even insulting, ideas about people who have any faith, let alone the Catholic branch of Christianity. I hope that my answer, which includes my conversion story, goes some way to show that I am not a scary, strange and unrealistic person who uses his faith to hide behind, but instead just a guy who has done some reading, thinking and experiencing and drew some conclusions.

May it do some good.

About this blog

I am a Dutch Catholic from the north of the Netherlands. Via this blog I hope to share news items and thoughts about the Catholic Church in the Netherlands and across the world, from the perspective of an interested layman without any pretense of knowledge or authority. Any thoughts and ideas published here are therefore strictly my own.

Other topics will also appear here, as my interests dictate.

Regarding comments: I welcome debate, but insist on good behaviour. That means that name-calling, personal attacks or clearly unfounded sloganeering will result on deletion of the comment. As Mark Shea says: Conduct yourself as you would in my living room and you'll generally be just fine.

For a personal account about my reasons for becoming and remaining Catholic, go read my story: Why am I Catholic?

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But, since time is money, as they say, I am most certainly open to donations from readers who enjoy my writings or who agree with me that it communicating the faith and the news that directly affects us as Catholics, is a good thing.

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Sancta Maria, hortus conclusus, ora pro nobis!

Pope Francis

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