Former and New Catholics?

Question

Why did you leave, or why did you become Catholic?

Answer 1

When I started reading the Bible I couldn't reconcile many of the teachings of my AOG church with clear biblical teaching on the Most Holy Eucharist, the priesthood, the true meaning of baptism, mortal sin, the necessity of good works for salvation, the intercession of the saints, sacramental confession, and many other doctrinal areas. I started looking at other churches and investigating their teachings. I found pretty much the same errors in all of them. Finally I got a copy of the Catechism of the Catholic Church and started looking through it, and to my great surprise found that everything I was reading (complete with footnotes to biblical references) was in complete accord with all that I had read in the Bible. That prompted me to look deeper, and when I did I was overwhelmed by the fullness of truth found in the Catholic Church. I was also impressed by the clear history of the Catholic Church right back to apostolic times. I signed up for an RCIA course, to learn more, and that naturally led to my formally entering the Holy Catholic Church on Easter, 10 years ago. Every Christian should explore the teachings of the Catholic Church - the real teachings, not the misrepresentations found in a lot of anti-Catholic propaganda. Otherwise you will never know how much you are missing. Manmade churches can only present you with part of the truth, with a lot of untruth mixed in. The Catholic Church is the one Church founded by Jesus Christ upon the Apostles. He never authorized the founding of any other church. But don't take my word for it. Look into it yourself. Don't be afraid of the truth.
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Answer 2

I became a Catholic after I realized that the views of the Church and my own personal views were the same. I did some reading on Catholicism and some Protestant faiths and found that I believe that only the Catholic church has the fullness of the teaching of Jesus Christ (that isn't to say that other churches do not have some of the teaching, but only the Catholic church is complete).

It is difficult to explain why I am a Catholic convert. There are 10,000 reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.

The Church has NEVER waivered on any issue - always teaching the truth. Sure there have been (and are still) some bad things going on, but that is going to be found in any organization.

Answer 3

I left because the things that I heard over and over again just didn't add up for me. I have never heard a good, not even a bad, explaination of how one guy could be three, or three people could be one.
Gradually as I matured I began to look for explainations instead of just agreeing because that's what we're supposed to do. I have come to the conclusion that there is absolutely no supernatural in this world, or anywhere else.
To me, any belief in anything supernatural is simply superstition. That includes spooks, ghosts ( holy or otherwise ), gods, angels, Santa Claus, etc.

Answer 4

Former!

I left because I felt empty there. There were no rational explanations for much of what we were being taught. All of the negative history of the Church was played down. Many of my questions were dismissed or ignored.

I felt that unless you were a wealthy parishioner, the clergy didn't have much use for you, although there were exceptions.
I just remember being eight years old and being told that because I didn't pester my parents to attend church on Sunday we'd all go to hell! (they were ill that weekend!)

Answer 5

I left because I reasoned my way out, I'm now an Atheist, and glad to be rid of all the guilt, it took a while but I'm a lot happier now.