this is a question for people who decided to be Catholics: what made you decide to be a Catholic?

Question

did someone convince you?

Jimmy C Korn, shut up, will you?

Answer 1

Here are some good reasons given by Catholic converts.

"The difficulty of explaining "why I am a Catholic" is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true." - G K Chesterton

"Catholicism is what I have always believed, though I did not have the wit to realise it. You might call it a shaft of light before the sun sets." - Canon Edward Norman

"The Catholic Church was recognized by the whole Christian world as the true Church of God for 15 consecutive centuries. No man can halt at the end of those 1,500 years and say that the Catholic Church is not the Church of Christ without embarrassing himself seriously. I can accept only that Church which was preached to all creatures by my own forefathers, the Twelve (Apostles) who, like me, issued from the Synagogue." - Rabbi Zolli of Rome

" the [Nicene] Creeds tell us that the Church is One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic" - John Henry Newman

'The Catholic Church is the fullest, most rightly ordered manifestation of the Church on earth." - Jennifer Ferrara, ex-Lutheran Pastor.

"How silly, and how characteristic of the times, is the idea that truth is to be got by going back to, say, the Sermon on the Mount, or leaving out of account the historical fact of the Church, as though it were a sort of later parasitic growth" - Malcolm Muggeridge

"[T]here are many other things which most properly can keep me in [the Catholic Church’s] bosom...Her authority...The succession of priests, from the very see of the apostle Peter, to whom the Lord, after his resurrection, gave the charge of feeding his sheep [John 21:15–17]" - St Augustine AD390

Answer 2

I converted to Catholicism when I was in college because I love the Church, especially the Liturgy and the Eucharist. When I was growing up, our next-door neighbors were Catholic, and I learned a lot about the Faith from them. I read as much about the Church as I could get my hands on, and by the time I was out on my own, becoming Catholic was a foregone conclusion.

I feel the closest to God and Jesus during the Eucharist, and I love the idea of being a part of a Church that stretches back over the centuries to the days of Christ and His apostles. The liturgy is beautiful, and I get a lot of peace and comfort from the consistency of the Mass. Catholicism is the only religion that's ever felt like home to me, and I love my Church!

Answer 3

History, the Bible and the Holy Spirit convinced me. It took me about six years of studying and prayer and trying to find a church before I realized that the Catholic Church had everything that I was looking for in the Bible and in prayer.

Answer 4

I was baptized Catholic and brought up in a Catholic home. I am Catholic because I CHOOSE to be, not because I don't know better. I am an educated person who went to school and has a career. I believe in God and the teachings of the Catholic Church, I wasn't pressured into it. I am Catholic.

Answer 5

I think it was those nuns when they sent me to catholic school, if it wasn't their way they would do a great job of abusing young children by doing things like grabbing them by the hair and slamming their heads into the blackboard; of course, it wasn't for the little child did, but usually for something they didn't know like a math problem.

Leaving the slavery of the catholic church is the greatest experience someone forced or brainwashed into to being a catholic can have!

Then the can build their foundation upon the TRUE ROCK, the LORD Jesus Christ, and not on sand (another human).

Even Peter knew and admitted he wasn't the Rock, no it was far more lovelier, it is Jesus, of course

"Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,

If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole;

Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.

This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.

Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved."

Acts 4:8-12 ... Aint it the truth?

Answer 6

You could say that. I saw no reason in protestantism. Every person interprets the Bible the way they like, no confessions, no absolution, they depend on the civil authorities, and many more inappropriate things

Answer 7

I'm a Catholic and I was raised as one. However I stick as a Catholic not because I believe my religion is superior to others but I feel compelled in my heart to stick to what I believe in.

Answer 8

When I WAS Catholic, I was born to it. I practiced for...lets see...about 13 years. Its a beautiful faith. I still love a latin mass.

Sure people convert. I was never told I HAD to practice. I enjoyed it though. It just wasn't for me when I got older

Answer 9

BEWARE OF CATHOLICS...

Matthew 23
9. And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

1 Timothy 4
1. Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2. Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
3. Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

Answer 10

Do people actually convert to Catholicism? I thought it was more of a, "I was taught this since I was two" kind of a thing.