Luken Joseph Stitzel is a Catholic writer from Western Idaho, who entered the Catholic Church on Easter 2018, a convert from atheism. He is the founder of the Rocky Mountain Catholic page on Instagram and aspires to be an apologist for the Catholic faith. He devotes himself to Our Lady of Guadalupe and SS. Pio of Pietrelcina, Luke, Joseph, and Constantine the Great.
Author: Luken Stitzel

A Stripped Mass Starves Souls
Going to the “new Mass” offered at parishes near me will always be a spiritual struggle, as the norms usually include female altar servers; “extraordinary” Eucharistic ministers; horrible, Protestantized music; and (nearly forced) Communion in the hand. Although this cannot …

Faith without Compromise: An Atheist’s Conversion Story
One of the big questions that has been routinely asked me by non-Catholic friends and family is, why become Catholic, especially now? It would seem that my conversion comes as a predicament due to its timing, given all the scandals. …