Catholics: Why are you not Protestant?

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jmcrae said:
Because in the Catholic Church, good girls do make history.
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(Is anyone else as annoyed as I am by that bumper sticker that says, ā€œGood Girls Donā€™t Make Historyā€? :mad: )

Mother Mary
St. Martha and St. Mary her sister
St. Barbara
St. Agnes
St. Teresa of Avila
St. Catherine of Sienna
St. Bernadette
St. Faustina
Ste. Therese de Lisieux
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta

Just a random sampling of a very few of the many good, obedient Catholic women who have changed the course of history over the past 2000 years.

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I think you just made your own bumpersticker.

Hereā€™s a thought ā€“ copyright it and sell it to Catholic parishes. Donate the money to Catholic schools.
 
Because Catholics have Catholic Schools which had girls wearing nice uniforms that is why I am Catholic. Of course Iā€™m kiddingā€¦

The Church honors the saints.
 
Mannyfit75 said:
Because Catholics have Catholic Schools which had girls wearing nice uniforms that is why I am Catholic. Of course Iā€™m kiddingā€¦

The Church honors the saints.
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Especially when they are wearing well shined black patent shoesā€¦
 
Iā€™m a revert. I joined Liberty Bible Baptist church, born again fundamentalist church, and I was in the process of indoctrination in the Iglesia ni Cristo when I decided to do an independent study of the christian history without all these churches including the catholic church influencing me. I read the 1st four hundred years and canā€™t find the doctrine of bible alone and faith alone as preached by protestants except maybe the Arianism revived by Iglesia ni Cristo. I canā€™t find them in the 1st four hundred years! If they are so far disconnected from the early christians, then they canā€™t be the true christians written in the New testament!
I am not a protestant because the faith alone and bible alone doctrines and the founding of the different protestant churches are relatively new compared to the doctrines of the catholic church and the founding of the catholic church.
 
Because I was born a Catholic.

I love the Church.

I love being Catholic; I couldnā€™t be Protestant even if I tried.

I have Jesus in the Eucharist

And Maryā€™s intercession.

And the Holy Spirit that gives me strength and consoles me.
 
ā€œWhoever does not have the Church as his mother, cannot have God as his Father.ā€ -St. Cyprian of Carthage (251 AD)
 
Iā€™m not Protestant because I donā€™t know why there are so many denominations and churches. I donā€™t know which church I would fit in to.

I stick to the Catholic Church because itā€™s full of Love. šŸ™‚
 
Iā€™m a Catholic convert, and I guess there are a few reasons why Iā€™m not protestant.

I believe in absolute truth. Each denomination is divided by its own theologies and other differences. The Bible also mentions that the church should have no division. God is not of confusion. Keeping these things in mind, I also remember that we are commanded to tithe. Now since we are commanded to tithe, and we are commanded to be one (undivided), it only makes sense that we are to belong (and also tithe to) one church. Which church might that be? The one that has existed since the very beginning. No protestant denominations can legitimately claim that they are the original, the universal church. It is the Catholic Church. This is also why I continue to remain Catholic, that, and if one leaves the church they are in danger of hell. But that is besides the point. The main reason is because it is Christā€™s Church, and Christā€™s Church unlike no other :). And the Eucharist!!!
 
I am catholic because despite my errant ways my thoughts, morals and sense of justice which drive me have all come from mother church.

i am catholic because in a hour of despair the blessed virgin answered my call and i promised to follow her son and return my home .

there is one God.one faith and one church.
 
The first thing that really led me to latch on to Catholicism came in an after school group that met at my public high school to pray and read the Bible. A protestant girl there whom I greatly respected once encouraged us all to open up to one another because ā€œweā€™re all Christian or Catholic here.ā€ Although I knew that she meant no offense, I wanted to be part of the church that didnā€™t make such distinctions. Though I now make distinctions between this church and that, I must say that I am very careful in discussing them with friends in hopes that I will not turn them off to the Catholic faith as I was turned off to protestantism.

Later, I saw an advertisement for EWTN radio at the Catholic school where I was working. It took a while for me to warm up to such characters as Fr. Corapi, but it lead me to a wealth of resources on the faith and the overwhelming logic of it all. The history, the scriptures, the intricacies of the Mass; it all just added up until I had to concluded that the Catholic Church is the church started by Jesus.
 
Well, I suppose the short answer has to be because of the grace of God.

But I was initially attracted to the Catholic church from evangelicalism by several factors. One was the social and charitable works which the church has undertaken which became obvious to me upon moving to Chicagoā€¦ a very ā€œcatholicā€ city in that there are so many here. And so many Catholic hospitals, orphanagesā€¦ although I donā€™t think theyā€™re really called that anymoreā€¦ etc.

The church served everyone in need regardless of their religion or lack thereofā€¦ and they didnā€™t subject everyone to a ā€œgospel presentationā€ or altar call every time they did.

Also, it seemed the catholic church was more in-tuned to scripture. By which I mean that there were doctrines and practices which I witnessed as being extra-biblical, but not un-biblical, and there werenā€™t any Bible passages that had to be ignored or explained away with exegetical gymnastics.

Also, the church was welcoming and didnā€™t mind that I was recently divorced (why I was kicked out of my Evangelical Free church), and also didnā€™t get hung up if people wanted to have a glass of wine, or a cigarette, or danceā€¦ which are all strongly un-Christian behaviors in the evangelical world!

And so, just as I was wondering how I could become a Catholic I went to mass that Sunday and they introduced the RCIA program that week!

Now that Iā€™m a Catholic for 12 years I continue to learn more and more and how great a blessing Iā€™ve been given that God brought me to it.

Anyway, long story short (I knowā€¦ too late!) I came to the church because when I started attending mass it just felt like home. I believe that Iā€™ve always been a Catholicā€¦ I just didnā€™t know it for 28 years.
 
vern_humphrey said:
There is that old injunction, ā€œYou must have faith.ā€

Faith in who?

Faith in someone who last month (or last year, or last century) decided the Bible means something it didnā€™t mean before? Faith in someone who invented new doctrines out of thin air?

I look at the long history of Catholicism and see an unbroken tradition ā€“ the Church teaches now what it taught then. And I see Who taugh the Church. In Him, I can have faith.
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Well said
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  1. Because everytime I have entered a Protestant church (each member of my family belongs to a different denomination so Iā€™ve tried quite a few) I heard something different that disagreed with some other Protestant church or another church of the denomination.
  2. Because I know there is an absolute truth out there. Ethics and morals cannot be subjective.
  3. Because I love history and the Catholic Church has the fullest history with the richest tradition.
  4. Because everytime I went to church as a child (again protestant churches) I spent hours watching the hands go around on my watch and complete ignored everything else.
  5. And mostly important because the first time I went to a Catholic Church I cried the entire mass, because I knew Jesus was present. It was amazing how simple it was after that first mass to figure out were God wanted me.
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Because the Catholic Church is like a glorious castle where every room is filled with all the treasures Christ Himself left for us to learn and be filled with.

And each time I think I couldnā€™t possible be in a more wondrous place, a new door opens with even more treasuresā€¦the beauty is unsurpassable!

My thirst for all things Catholic is never ending. I feel exalted in a world that is not of this world, but a world that is filled with the Holy Spirit which is Christ Himself.

How fortunate I am to be Catholic. :angel1:
 
I guess my two main reservations about Protestantism is the criticism of mystical contemplation as un-biblical and also the downgrading of the importance of the sacraments in salvation, at least in some circles. In the eucharist one feels the sacred and you really do partake in the divine nature; I never felt that anywhere else in my past experiences in Churches.
 
I not Protestant because I donā€™t protest Catholic Church teachings. None of the Catholic Church teachings are new. They are revealed Truths, handed down from the Apostlesā€¦to the bishops and popes of today.
 
Mannyfit75 said:
I not Protestant because I donā€™t protest Catholic Church teachings. None of the Catholic Church teachings are new. They are revealed Truths, handed down from the Apostlesā€¦to the bishops and popes of today.
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For all the accusations Catholicism takes for ā€œadding man made rulesā€ and ā€œconfusingā€ Christianity, it makes much more sense to be Catholicā€¦Catholicism can trace its history to JESVS, others cant.

It really is that simpleā€¦
 
I forgot to type it as ā€œIā€™m not.ā€ Darn I hate typos.
 
+JMJ
Because our Lord instituted the Roman Catholic faithā€¦no other. Protestantism denies the faith that the apostles and their immediate followers/successors practiced as evidence by the writings of the early church.

St Paul stated: ā€œHold fast to the TRADITIONS I have passed on to you.ā€ and ā€œShun those who do not follow tradition.ā€ These are pretty good arguments for Roman Catholicism.

Besides, nobody else has the EUCHARIST!!!

God Bless you all.
 
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