{"id":67540,"date":"2025-12-04T02:20:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T02:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=67540"},"modified":"2025-12-04T02:20:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T02:20:54","slug":"influencer-son-of-evangelical-pastors-shares-how-he-embraced-the-catholic-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/pt\/learn\/influencer-son-of-evangelical-pastors-shares-how-he-embraced-the-catholic-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Influenciador filho de pastores evang\u00e9licos partilha como abra\u00e7ou a f\u00e9 cat\u00f3lica"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Jonatan Medina, filho de pastores evang\u00e9licos, partilha como se converteu \u00e0 f\u00e9 cat\u00f3lica. \/ Cr\u00e9dito: EWTN News<\/span>\n<\/div>\n

Equipa da ACI Prensa, 26 de outubro de 2025 \/ 07:00 (CNA).<\/p>\n

Jonatan Medina Espinal \u00e9 um jovem influenciador cat\u00f3lico que, como filho de pastores evang\u00e9licos, era considerado pouco prov\u00e1vel de abra\u00e7ar a f\u00e9 cat\u00f3lica, mas f\u00ea-lo h\u00e1 cinco anos ap\u00f3s uma longa e intensa jornada espiritual.<\/p>\n

Agora, com ideias mais claras sobre a f\u00e9, o jovem peruano tornou-se um defensor da doutrina cat\u00f3lica, promovendo-a nas suas redes sociais, bem como no seu livro em espanhol \u201cRumo \u00e0 Barca de Pedro: A Minha Jornada do Protestantismo \u00e0 Igreja Cat\u00f3lica<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

para Dante Urbina<\/a>, um autor, professor e conferencista cat\u00f3lico que tamb\u00e9m influenciou a convers\u00e3o de Medina, o livro \u00e9 \u201cum testemunho de convers\u00e3o profunda e profundidade intelectual que nos convida a entrar e perseverar na Igreja Cat\u00f3lica\u201d.<\/p>\n

Medina \u00e9 um comunicador audiovisual profissional e descreve-se como \u201cum buscador da verdade\u201d. Numa entrevista \u00e0 \u201cEWTN Noticias\u201d, a edi\u00e7\u00e3o de transmiss\u00e3o em espanhol da EWTN News, partilhou que j\u00e1 se sentia cat\u00f3lico \u201cde cora\u00e7\u00e3o\u201d desde 2017, quando \u201ccome\u00e7ou esta jornada que lhe levou cerca de dois ou tr\u00eas anos\u201d.<\/p>\n

A 8 de dezembro de 2020, em plena pandemia de COVID-19 e na solenidade da Imaculada Concei\u00e7\u00e3o, Medina recebeu o sacramento do batismo, tornando-se oficialmente parte da Igreja Cat\u00f3lica.<\/p>\n

Medina salientou que era necess\u00e1rio para ele receber o sacramento na Igreja, considerando que aquele que tinha recebido no seu grupo crist\u00e3o poderia n\u00e3o ter sido totalmente v\u00e1lido.<\/p>\n

Todo o processo que levou \u00e0 sua convers\u00e3o, continuou Medina \u2014 que faz parte do Movimento de Avan\u00e7o Cat\u00f3lico<\/a> \u2014 come\u00e7ou \u201cparadoxalmente, com um per\u00edodo de agnosticismo\u2026 Fui agn\u00f3stico durante uns bons anos da minha vida, depois tentei abra\u00e7ar uma f\u00e9 mais razo\u00e1vel, baseada em evid\u00eancias\u201d.<\/p>\n

Guiado por v\u00e1rias figuras crist\u00e3s como o protestante C.S. Lewis e o cat\u00f3lico G.K. Chesterton, Medina questionou a sua afilia\u00e7\u00e3o a uma igreja evang\u00e9lica. \u201cComecei a abra\u00e7ar uma f\u00e9 mais hist\u00f3rica, com maior coer\u00eancia.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ap\u00f3s \u201cdescobrir todas as fragmenta\u00e7\u00f5es\u2026 do protestantismo, disse: Como pode o Evangelho estar t\u00e3o dividido? E vi que a Igreja aparece com a sua unidade, embora obviamente isso n\u00e3o implique que n\u00e3o existam tens\u00f5es ou certas divis\u00f5es, mas h\u00e1 um ensinamento que nos ajuda a estar unidos e nos d\u00e1 essa garantia de unidade\u201d.<\/p>\n

A influ\u00eancia do Professor Scott Hahn<\/h2>\n

\u201cObtive um mestrado em teologia na Universidade Franciscana de Steubenville. Estive com o Professor Scott Hahn<\/a>. Lembro-me de ouvir o seu testemunho de convers\u00e3o\u2026 Ele converteu-se come\u00e7ando a rezar o ros\u00e1rio, porque estava praticamente convencido por todos os argumentos, mas n\u00e3o sabia o que lhe faltava at\u00e9 que algu\u00e9m lhe deu um ros\u00e1rio\u201d, contou Medina na entrevista \u00e0 \u201cEWTN Noticias\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cEle rezou-o, uma situa\u00e7\u00e3o imposs\u00edvel resolveu-se para ele, e depois esqueceu o assunto. Depois percebeu que tinha sido ingrato e come\u00e7ou a rez\u00e1-lo regularmente, e isso cimentou a sua convers\u00e3o\u201d, explicou.<\/p>\n

\u201cSem d\u00favida, o tema de Maria \u00e9 sempre importante, porque como protestante de nascimento, nunca tive qualquer afei\u00e7\u00e3o por ela\u201d, enfatizou Medina.<\/p>\n

Hahn cresceu na Igreja Presbiteriana, tornando-se eventualmente te\u00f3logo e ministro nessa denomina\u00e7\u00e3o crist\u00e3. A sua jornada de convers\u00e3o<\/a> come\u00e7ou depois de ele e a sua esposa, Kimberly, se convencerem de que a contrace\u00e7\u00e3o \u00e9 contr\u00e1ria \u00e0 lei de Deus, um conceito abandonado por muitos protestantes durante o s\u00e9culo XX, mas sempre defendido pela Igreja Cat\u00f3lica.<\/p>\n

Hahn converteu-se ao catolicismo na P\u00e1scoa de 1986. A sua esposa seguiu-o quatro anos depois, em 1990. T\u00eam seis filhos, um dos quais, Jeremiah, \u00e9 padre cat\u00f3lico desde 2021.<\/a><\/p>\n

Medina explicou tamb\u00e9m que outro marco na sua convers\u00e3o foi superar o conceito protestante de <\/em>\u201csola Scriptura\u201d (\u201csomente a Escritura\u201d), que postula que a B\u00edblia \u00e9 a \u00fanica fonte de f\u00e9 e pr\u00e1tica crist\u00e3, ignorando a tradi\u00e7\u00e3o, uma fonte de revela\u00e7\u00e3o que \u00e9 aceite pela Igreja Cat\u00f3lica.<\/p>\n

\u201cTinha descoberto o erro da sola Scriptura: lembro-me de quando o descobri e percebi que a obviedade, aquela falta de l\u00f3gica, era t\u00e3o clara\u201d, contou, e entendeu \u201cque a pr\u00f3pria Escritura j\u00e1 era tradi\u00e7\u00e3o, apenas escrita. Foi a\u00ed que disse: \u2018Ei, isto faz sentido para mim\u2019. A Sola Scriptura come\u00e7ou a desmoronar-se para mim\u201d.<\/p>\n

Medina, tamb\u00e9m autor do curta-metragem em espanhol \u201cNeighbors<\/a>\u201d sobre anjos da guarda, est\u00e1 grato por ter passado a amar a Virgem Maria atrav\u00e9s do exemplo de outro convertido, Urbina<\/a>, um professor e conferencista cat\u00f3lico e autor de v\u00e1rios livros em espanhol como \u201cDeus Existe?\u201d e \u201cQual \u00e9 a Verdadeira Religi\u00e3o?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEle tamb\u00e9m trabalhava na universidade onde trabalho, e foi providencial que nos encontr\u00e1ssemos um dia, e comecei a fazer-lhe perguntas sobre Maria especificamente, e ele ajudou-me muito. Acredito definitivamente que Maria foi fundamental na minha convers\u00e3o\u201d, enfatizou Medina.<\/p>\n

Esta hist\u00f3ria <\/em>foi publicada pela primeira vez<\/em><\/a> por ACI Prensa, parceiro de not\u00edcias em espanhol da CNA. Foi traduzido e adaptado pela CNA.<\/em><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/267377\/influencer-son-of-evangelical-pastors-shares-how-he-embraced-the-catholic-faith<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jonatan Medina, son of evangelical pastors, shares how he converted to the Catholic faith. \/ Credit: EWTN News ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 26, 2025 \/ 07:00 am (CNA). 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