12 Reasons I Joined the Catholic Church

will read and share later. thanks.

This is a wonderful article. Thanks for posting it.

Do you still worship the Elohim of Abraham, Isaac and Israel ?

shalom b'shem Yah'shua Hamashiach

Thanks. It is hard to explain the Catholic faith in just a few paragraphs.

Christians worship the God of Abraham. Christianity is just a continuation of the revelation first given to Abraham and Moses and the prophets. Jesus is the messiah prophesied in Isiah chapter 53.

He is even more glorious than what the Jews imagined. Man cannot become God, but God can become man.

Come’on in folks, the water’s fiiine!

Unfortunately, the nun that ran our program was worthless as far as helping me with my issues. She was a radical feminist, yet a sweet lady but couldn’t defend anything from scripture. . . . She would say things like Catholics don’t believe all of the events in the Gospels really happened. I wanted to get scriptural support for Catholic teachings on Mary and the Pope and instead I received a continuous stream of negative views on the papacy and how the church was unfair to women. . . . Today I tell people to read the Catechism and take what they hear in RCIA programs with a grain of salt.

Makes me wonder how many converts are out there in spite of RCIA rather than because of it!

Good article! Thanks for posting!

Thanks for your kind words. My radical feminist sister friend is in her 60s. Most of the feminist dissodent crowd that I have met are close to retirement age. Fortuntely, just like the new priests, most of the thriving younger religious orders are orthodox. It is only a matter of time when we will start to see improvement. For whatever reason many priests refuse to monitor their religious education programs at their local parishes.

With Pope Benedict 16, a new spring-time is coming. :-)

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I think that we are going to see a lot of good fruit.

For whatever reason many priests refuse to monitor their religious education programs at their local parishes.

I don't know, but in the "old days," lots of priests were wary of crossing the nuns. Of course, the nuns then were stricter than the priests (and utterly orthodox), so it all worked out for the best! ;-)

I do believe a new spring-time is coming.

Just how it will manifest itself. just how long it will take, just how scattered or global it may be I can’t know, but I believe it is coming

On another thread regarding an interview with Pope Benedict’s secretary, the young Bavarian priest quotes from the French philosopher Rene Girard who said the “we are on the eve of a revolution in our culture” and that the anticipated change (for the good) “ will make the Renaissance of the 15th century pale by comparison.”

I won’t live to see it, but my many children, grandchildren and great-grand-children surely will.

Deo gratias.

Thanks for your post.

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I like this, CatholicTim

Excellent

"My experience has been that a lot of Catholics don’t know what they have and a lot of Protestants don’t know what they are missing."

Great testimony. You would appreciate how John Henry Newman a major figure in English literature and founder of England's Oxford movement put it after joining the Catholic Church.

"converts come to the Catholic Church not so much to lose what they have, but to gain what they have not, by means of what they have, more may be given to them..."

He is remembered for a poem best recalled by its opening lines Lead Kindly Light which perhaps was his motto in his journey from Anglican minister to Catholic priest halfway through is life of some 90 years. He later became a Cardinal. "Lead thou me on. Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see -The distant scene—one step enough for me."

12 Reasons I Joined the Catholic Church

Conversion Story - Tom Hunt

The Tide Is Turning Toward Catholicism: The Converts

John Calvin Made Me Catholic

Journey Home - May 21 - Neil Babcox (former Presbyterian) - A minister encounters Mary

Going Catholic - Six journeys to Rome

My (Imminent) Reception into the Roman Catholic Church

From Calvinist to Catholic

A Convert's Pilgrimage [Christopher Cuddy]

From Pastor to Parishioner: My Love for Christ Led Me Home (to the Catholic Church) [Drake McCalister]

Lutheran professor of philosophy prepares to enter Catholic Church

Patty Bonds (former Baptist and sister of Dr. James White) to appear on The Journey Home - May 7

Pastor and Flock Become Catholics

The journey back - Dr. Beckwith explains his reasons for returning to the Catholic Church

Famous Homosexual Italian Author Returned to the Church Before Dying of AIDS

Dr. Francis Beckwith Returns To Full Communion With The Church

Catholic Converts - Stephen K. Ray (former Evangelical)

Catholic Converts - Malcolm Muggeridge

Catholic Converts - Richard John Neuhaus

Catholic Converts - Avery Cardinal Dulles

Catholic Converts - Israel (Eugenio) Zolli - Chief Rabbi of Rome

Catholic Converts - Robert H. Bork , American Jurist (Catholic Caucus)

Catholic Converts - Marcus Grodi

Why Converts Choose Catholicism

The Scott Hahn Conversion Story

FORMER PENTECOSTAL RELATES MIRACLE THAT OCCURRED WITH THE PRECIOUS BLOOD

John Calvin Made Me Catholic

Journey Home - May 21 - Neil Babcox (former Presbyterian) - A minister encounters Mary

Going Catholic - Six journeys to Rome

My (Imminent) Reception into the Roman Catholic Church

From Calvinist to Catholic

A Convert's Pilgrimage [Christopher Cuddy]

From Pastor to Parishioner: My Love for Christ Led Me Home (to the Catholic Church) [Drake McCalister]

Lutheran professor of philosophy prepares to enter Catholic Church

Patty Bonds (former Baptist and sister of Dr. James White) to appear on The Journey Home - May 7

Pastor and Flock Become Catholics

The journey back - Dr. Beckwith explains his reasons for returning to the Catholic Church

Famous Homosexual Italian Author Returned to the Church Before Dying of AIDS

Dr. Francis Beckwith Returns To Full Communion With The Church

Catholic Converts - Stephen K. Ray (former Evangelical)

Catholic Converts - Malcolm Muggeridge

Catholic Converts - Richard John Neuhaus

Catholic Converts - Avery Cardinal Dulles

Catholic Converts - Israel (Eugenio) Zolli - Chief Rabbi of Rome

Catholic Converts - Robert H. Bork , American Jurist (Catholic Caucus)

Catholic Converts - Marcus Grodi

Why Converts Choose Catholicism

The Scott Hahn Conversion Story

FORMER PENTECOSTAL RELATES MIRACLE THAT OCCURRED WITH THE PRECIOUS BLOOD

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I like this “CatholicTim”.

RD

A keeper! Bookmarked forever :-)

(BTW - Marcus Grodi interviewed Doug Gonzales 2 years ago. He too was a Nazarene. He lost his wife and children in the process of his conversion. His story is well worth reading.

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Many Protestants have the unscriptural notion that when we accept Jesus as our savior, all future sins are forgiven. There are many of passages in scripture that contradict this heresy.

And there you have it!