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Dear Mr.Warren, I'm very interested in your conversion story, and as many other have already done, I can tell you my own. I'm Italian and I was born a Catholic. I received all initiation sacraments and continued to attend the Mass up to 2003 (I was 19 at the time). Then I got a crisis period. I still believed in Jesus, I still had the certainty that a Church is necessary, but as many others I felt the Catholic Church had lots of down sides. I stopped attending the Mass because I wanted to look for the true Church, and I just couldn't be a-confessional at partaking in the Catholic liturgy at the same time - that's my view on Communion I never left in these years. I spent the next years studying all Christian denominations, from the most extreme such as Jehovah's Witnesses to the Orthodox, Anglican and Old Catholic Churches. I was leaning towards Orthodoxy after recognizing the value of Liturgy and of the Church Fathers - Sola Scriptura just made no more sense to me. Finally, I met a young man (God bless him) who was fond with both the Latin Traditional Mass and the Eastern liturgies. He attended the Byzantine Rite with me once, than he had me confess to my parish priest and attend the Latin Mass. That was my return to the Catholic Church, back on St Stephen's Day in 2008. Since then, I've been attending the Mass every Sunday and Day of Obligation. Last year, I became catechist and chorist in my parish, still attending both forms of the Roman Rite. God gave me great fruits for my conversion and I met surprisingly good people and fellow Christians. - Alessandro from Bergamo, Italy