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Biblically illiterate.

I was raised Protestant/Jewish - now there is a mix for you!

When it was time for me to decide my faith, I leaned to the Anglican rite, though it was not terribly rewarding. Like many, I skipped church during my late teens and early 20s as “not relevent.”

Then I met a Chaplain while I was on active service. He was Catholic, though he did run non-denominational services. The Catholic faith gave me what I lacked. A sense of God in my daily life.

I am profoundly grateful to him.

The irony is, my wife was raised Catholic and is now Buddhist.

Why do adults become Catholics?

Is it the snappy Mesopotamian uniforms?

I think adult Christians change denominations or worship with another denomination for one or more of four reasons.

In a sincere effort to approach our Lord, Jesus Christ.

For social purposes or rescue from congregational estrangement.

To be more in Christian family harmony with family member(s).

Or in answer to a irresistible call.

Some of these events have presented themselves in my life and I bless my Christian brethren who have welcomed or assisted me and my Lord who has blessed me in so many ways.

We are ALL converts to the Catholic Church. The conversion normally occurs at Baptism (by water, blood or desire). The Blessed Mother was redeemed before she was conceived. John the Baptist may have been converted in the womb as he leaped for joy at the sound of Mary’s voice.

Why be Catholic? >>>The Eucharist is real & it is Christ coming to enlighten and strengthen the believer by nourishing his soul for eternal life. Jesus Christ (John6:54), “Whoever eats my flesh & drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day.” (I heard a Priest on the radio say, at the end of the Judgment there will be Communion before we all enter Heaven.)

God in his infinity Mercy gives us the ‘Baptism by Desire’ for all those who ‘Love God above all things & love their neighbors as themselves’ so that they may obtain all the promises of Jesus Christ for eternal life in Heaven. (God loves everyone & provides for membership for ALL into the Catholic Church. Fault = serious, willful & full knowledge. +++ It is God who decides membership in the eternal Catholic Church for ALL those who fail as commanded to ‘officially’ join the visible Catholic Church.)

The passages about the Judgment of Nations in Matthew25: 31-46, when Jesus Christ separates the sheep from the goats, teaches ALL of us that God is looking for Acts of Corporal Mercy. Jesus Christ: “Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for >me.”

My wife was Protestant. When asked by the Priest why she wanted to be Catholic her answer was:

“Why settle for something less when you can have the real thing?”

BTW, We like like Protestants. That was her personal cut to the chase answer.

I still laugh about it about though.

So I could get an annulment from my two previous marriages and run for President.

I believe G.K. Chesterton gave my answer: To have my sins absolved.

Because the Pope seems to be the only world religious leader standing up to liberal social rot against the family

(now the knee-jerk Catholic liberalism toward environment, illegal imigration, “economic justice”, and even “hug a muslim”... are other matters. But still, far head of the Israel-boycotting protestant churches such as the one I no longer attend)

Although I have been Catholic since being in the cradle, I am a Catholic because of the greatness and fullness of the belief, confidence, and love that comes from God and is most shown in a visable way.

My experience is that two people get engaged. One was raised a Catholic, the other one doesn’t belong to a religion. The other one has to become a Catholic if he/she wants to marry the Catholic. Then they have kids who immediately become Catholics when they are baptized as infants. That’s what happened with my parents and the resulting kids. However I saw the light at around 20 years old and am no longer a Catholic.