Why should I become Catholic?

Question

and not be Christian (both are pretty much similar) ?

Answer 1

Why would you want to? There are many Catholics that are Christian and many that are worldly with no concept of what spiritual life is like. You can always be a Christian if you trust Christ and the promises of the Bible.

Answer 2

Only you can decide to become a Catholic Christian or a non-Catholic Christian.

I suggest you spend a lot of time in prayer.

If you are interested in joining or just learning more about the Catholic Church, contact your local parish and ask about information about their RCIA Inquiry group.

You can go and ask any questions you want.

This is the first step in RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults) but you can stop at any time.

There is no obligation to become a Catholic.

With love and prayers in Christ.

Answer 3

You and only you decide if you wanna be a Catholic or another type of Christian.

Spend a lot of time in prayer.

For you knowledge the most new part of the Catholic church is the societies of apostolic life, so if you want to be a Catholic certainly try to know a lot of them.

Answer 4

Catholics are Christian, so being Catholic does not exclude you from being a Christian regardless of what other denominations may say about Catholics.

P.S. What is your obsession with Catholics?

Answer 5

All catholics ARE christians.
Not all christians are catholics.

In any case, there is no "should" about it.
Why burden yourself with labels?

Believe what you want to believe.... what feels right to you... and just forget about what others push upon you.

Answer 6

Catholics are Christians. I think that we all should follow Jesus and not any religion.

Answer 7

u shldnt be a catholic for the sake of being one. investigate religion and seek the best answer to yourself, your community and society and the world......its tough. u shldnt have blind faith. it must be based on rationalization and principles. dont follow the blind masses

Answer 8

"Outside the Church There is No Salvation"

How do we understand this saying from the Church Fathers? All salvation comes from Christ through his Body, the Church which is necessary for salvation because Christ is present in his Church.

Jesus said, "The man who believes and accepts Baptism will be saved; the man who refuses to believe in it will be condemned" (Mk 16:16). By these words Jesus also affirmed the necessity of the Church, because Baptism is its door to the Church.

Refusing to Enter
Someone who knows the Catholic Church was founded as necessary by God and refuses to enter or remain in it, cannot be saved.

Just Not Knowing
However, those, who through no fault of their own do not know either the Gospel of Christ or his Church, can achieve salvation by seeking God with a sincere heart and by trying to do God's will (Second Vatican Council). Although God can lead all people to salvation, the Church still has the duty to evangelize all men.

No Salvation Outside the Church - Church Fathers

The following quotations from the Church Fathers show that the early Church held the same position on this as the contemporary Church does—that is, while it is normatively necessary to be a Catholic to be saved (see CCC 846; Vatican II, Lumen Gentium 14), there are exceptions, and it is possible in some circumstances for people to be saved who have not been fully initiated into the Catholic Church (CCC 847).

Origen
"[T]here was never a time when God did not want men to be just; he was always concerned about that. Indeed, he always provided beings endowed with reason with occasions for practicing virtue and doing what is right. In every generation the wisdom of God descended into those souls which he found holy and made them to be prophets and friends of God" (Against Celsus 4:7 [A.D. 248]).

"If someone from this people wants to be saved, let him come into this house so that he may be able to attain his salvation. . . . Let no one, then, be persuaded otherwise, nor let anyone deceive himself: Outside of this house, that is, outside of the Church, no one is saved; for, if anyone should go out of it, he is guilty of his own death" (Homilies on Joshua 3:5 [A.D. 250]).

Ignatius of Antioch

Be not deceived, my brethren: If anyone follows a maker of schism [i.e., is a schismatic], he does not inherit the kingdom of God; if anyone walks in strange doctrine [i.e., is a heretic], he has no part in the Passion [of Christ]. Take care, then, to use one Eucharist, so that whatever you do, you do according to God: For there is one flesh of our Lord Jesus Christ, and one cup in the union of his blood; one altar, as there is one bishop, with the presbytery and my fellow servants, the deacons (Letter to the Philadelphians 3:3-4:1 [A.D. 110]).
Infallible Authority to Teach with Certitude
The Catholic Church was founded by our Lord to bring salvation to all men. Christ established only one Church with one set of beliefs (Eph. 4:4–5). He did not establish numerous churches with contradictory beliefs.

He commissioned his Church to teach all nations and to teach them infallibly—guided, as he promised, by the Holy Spirit until the end of the world (John 14:26, 16:13). The mere fact that the Church teaches that something is definitely true is a guarantee that it is true (cf. Matt. 28:18-20, Luke 10:16, 1 Tim. 3:15).

"And so I tell all of you; what you prohibit on earth will be prohibited in heaven, and what you permit on earth will be permitted in heaven". - Matthew 18,18

"Whoever listens to you listens to me; whoever rejects you rejects me; and whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me." - Luke 10,16

But if I delay, this letter will let you know how we should conduct ourselves in God's household, which is the Church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of truth. - 1 Timothy 3, 15

Peace and blessings!

Answer 9

is this question a joke?


Catholicism IS Christianity.


and don't be a Catholic if you don't want to. no one is forcing you.

Answer 10

You have to choose which way is best for you to Worship God.