Some of the best Catholics I know are converts and I just like to hear about the deciding factors that brought them home to Rome. God bless you all.
2007-06-12 09:23:37 · 7 answers · asked by The Raven † 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Drake, I really like that answer. And your comment about the history reminded me of the well known quote by Cardinal Newman ---
"To be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant."
Thank you.
2007-06-12 09:34:46 · update #1
wolfeblayde: It's a shame that you had to choose between the faith and relationships with certain family members. However, congratulations on making the right choice and welcome home. Also, you are the only one so far who has even mentioned the EUCHARIST..the most important and central part of the whole Catholic faith. Thank you for your answer and God bless you.
2007-06-12 09:54:50 · update #2
I converted to Catholicism when I was a freshman in college, many years ago. When I was growing up, our next door neighbors were Catholic, and I fell in love with the Church based on all that I learned from them.
My parents were Protestants, so I waited until I left home to join the Church. Some of my relatives were pretty upset and haven't talked to me in years because of my decision, but I've never regretted my choice. I love the beauty of the Mass and the Eucharist, and the stability of the Liturgy gives me great peace. I also like being a part of the parish family and knowing that we're all part of a great chain of believers that stretches back over the centuries to the days of Christ and His apostles.
The Catholic church is the only denomination that's ever felt like "home" to me. God willing, it's the Faith that I'll live and die in.
2007-06-12 09:48:47 · answer #1 · answered by Wolfeblayde 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
After much investigation, prayer and BIble study, I converted to Catholicism because I believe it is the fullness of Christian truth. Protestant churches are also true, to an extent, as is Judaism and other religions, but there was a completeness to Catholicism that I wanted and need -- the art, the intellectual reasoning, the history, to be sure, but also the communion of Saints, all seven Sacraments, etc.
To the lady above who thinks she's excommunicated -- this is NOT true. No person is EVER automatically excommunicated for legally divorcing an abusive spouse. It's a pity she didn't discuss the matter with a priest or look it up in the Catechism because she should not feel that way.
2007-06-12 09:35:36 · answer #2 · answered by sparki777 7 · 9⤊ 1⤋
Ok I'm not catholic but I can answer this. Awhile back a bunch of friends and I (most of us Protestants) went to an ethics conference at Notre Dame and were incredibly attracted to Catholicism. I think a lot of its appeal for people like us is the history, emphasis on art, and intellectualism of the Catholic faith. There are a lot of great Catholic scholars (especially Pope John Paul II) and their teachings are very, very attractive. This is opposed to certain branches of Protestantism, in which the extent of art is a picture of Jesus knocking at a door and the extent of intellectual achievement is Focus on the Family.
2007-06-12 09:28:12 · answer #3 · answered by Drake the Deist 2 · 8⤊ 0⤋
Kinda. approximately my Jr. twelve months of highschool, i desperate that being born a Catholic wasn't a good adequate reason to stay one, so I converted to a "non-denominational" pentecostal church. There i got here across too lots theological and non secular inconsistency (if no longer hypocrisy) so I went to different protestant church homes: Lutheran, Baptist, Methodist. I even regarded into Judaism and Buddhism. interior the tip, I got here back to the Catholic Church. For all it somewhat is faults, it has the main desirable with it. IMO.
2016-10-17 01:30:35 · answer #4 · answered by teters 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you make an informed decision in regard to your faith, not a forced one, you understand why you love it, and you understand how to live it.
I have great respect for converts, it can be a very difficult choice. They have usually thought things out a little better than people who have been raised that way.
2007-06-12 09:32:06 · answer #5 · answered by lystrayel 3 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Read Surprised by the truth by Patrick Madrid and Rome sweet Home by Scott Hahn!
2007-06-12 09:37:08 · answer #6 · answered by Sniper 5 · 6⤊ 1⤋
I converted to Catholicism when I married a Catholic. But it turned out he believed he had the right to hit me, and I disagreed. So I divorced him, which got me excommunicated.
So I converted, but it did not last.
2007-06-12 09:28:34 · answer #7 · answered by auntb93 7 · 2⤊ 6⤋