From Methodist to Catholic: Learning to be a digital disciple - Kyle Whittington of the Catholic Creator Conference

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Kyle Whittington: From a Teen Trip to Europe to Founding the Catholic Creator Conference

Host Sheila Nonato has a candid conversation with Kyle Whittington—father of five, Air Force veteran, and founder of the Catholic Creator Conference in Steubenville, Ohio—on conversion and digital evangelization. Kyle recounts growing up around various Protestant churches, and then encountering Catholic beauty at Notre Dame and Rome on a 2008 People to People trip in his mid-teen years.

He is later drawn to attend Mass through a Catholic schoolmate, via the offer of a free pizza, and a profound realization of the Eucharist as the real presence of Jesus. After recognizing he had “converted internally,” he entered the Church at the 2010 Easter Vigil. He met his wife Julia at the Franciscan Universityof Steubenville, served 10 years in the Air Force, and later helped build Catholic Creator Conference, and creator collaboration through this in-person conference aimed at reducing online conflict and strengthening evangelization across platforms.

HIGHLIGHTS
00:00 Europe Trip Awakening
01:22 Conversion Theme Intro
02:29 St Patrick Episode Setup
03:57 Show Intro And Prayer
05:20 Kyle's Background and The Catholic Creator Conference
06:39 How it all began
11:33 Why In-Person Community Matters
14:25 A Trip to Rome And Pope Leo On the Digital Mission
16:26 Speaker Lineup: What can we expect?
18:47 Bigger Venue Tickets And Studios
20:57 Application Rules And Catholic Unity
25:41 Kyle's Unlikely Conversion
27:08 Europe Beauty And Vatican Moment
29:25 Pizza Invite, First Holy Mass And Eucharist
32:00 How he told his parents
34:11 Steps towards conversion
35:07 Meeting his wife, Julia
37:57 Air Force And Deployment
39:45 Faith In The Military
41:30 Why Steubenville Matters
47:28 Chestertons Cigar & Co. And Masculinity
54:33 Debate Club Brotherhood
57:33 Creators Beyond Apologetics
59:31 Conference Details And to Register

To register for the conference:

https://catholiccreatorconference.com

Kyle Whittington on social media:

https://www.youtube.com/@Catholickyle

https://www.x.com/@Catholickyle

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