Asked why this is the time for him and his family to convert, Mr. Scharbach offered a simple answer: “The magisterium – to be in communion with the Holy See.”<\/p>\n
Just months ago, Mr. Scharbach was a promising Anglican priest at the Church of the Good Shepherd, Rosemont, near Philadelphia. <\/p>\n
Mrs. Scharbach, 35, taught the couple’s children at home.<\/p>\n
The husband had been contemplating a move to Catholicism since his days of learning at Westminster Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania. <\/p>\n
His route to Catholicism was rather circuitous. He said he was “nominally” raised Catholic and received baptism, Eucharist and confirmation as a youth. Ultimately, he rejected the magisterium he has come to embrace.<\/p>\n
Seminary research planted seeds of doubt. In a letter to the Good Shepherd leadership committee that explained his departure from the Anglican priesthood, he said a “supernatural hush” came over him at his library table.<\/p>\n
“The arguments I found refuted all the objections offered by my professor for the validity of the papacy,” he wrote. “I was enthused. I was moved. I was even a bit awed.”<\/p>\n
He also saw the fracture of the American Episcopal Church as dividing the body of Christ. The Catholic Church, unlike others, was still standing.<\/p>\n
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