Have you always been catholic or are you a convert through RCIA?

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I have a Catholic Mum and a Protestant Dad so was baptized Catholic but went to Protestant schools. I’ve always classed myself as Catholic even though I didn’t get a full Catholic education and have had long spells, sometimes years, of not attending Mass. I married a Catholic, but I only received the sacraments of Confirmation/Reconciliation/Eucharist later on, before our Son was born.
 
Interesting. Not as many Cradle Catholics as I would have expected. I guess that’s a good thing? Or else converts spend more time on Catholic forums? 🙂
 
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Interesting. Not as many Cradle Catholics as I would have expected. I guess that’s a good thing? Or else converts spend more time on Catholic forums? 🙂
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The sample size is too small and the poll is not scientific. If you don’t enter Catholic Living/family life, you won’t even see the poll.

Having said that, all of the converts that I know are very involved with any and everything in the church. Most of the volunteers for RCIA are converts (about 80 Percent).

To be a convert, you were led to the Church by God and accept his will. I adore everything about my Church and thank God I’m here. That may give us an advantage over someone that has been Catholic all their lives. Of course, we owe a lot to the cradle Catholics that kept the Church intact for us to find.
 
“Cradle Catholic” here; child of a mixed marriage where the Catholic parent raised me as a Catholic.

But I was a “lazy Catholic,” too, and didn’t follow all the rules, until my mid-20s when I studied the Christian Bible for myself and concluded that the Catholic faith was the true faith.
 
Yep, I need another option as well since I’m a revert. I was indeed born Catholic, but haven’t been practicing continually since birth. (Long story. Leaving the Church was not my idea, and I did not have a choice since I was still a minor at the time.) So it wouldn’t be accurate to say I’ve “always” been Catholic, but I’m not a convert either.
 
I have been a Catholic for many of my lives going back to my conversion in my 2 incarnation during the revolutionary war. Just Kidding! Hey I dug into the Church for 2 years before entering RCIA. RCIA was a joke. The old deacon basically just talked about how much he hated abortion. I ended up answering most of my fellow catechumen and candidates questions. I love the Church and it’s teachings, but I found that once I was in the Church, there are actually not that many practicing Catholics in the Church. I kinda feel all alone, except for God, that is. What’s funny is that of all there is to our Church, all that is focused on in the US is abortion and gay marriage. I feel a little like I got the old bait and switch. We need a Catholic Church for Catholics. Like a “secret mass” after the mass, just for people that follow the teachings.
 
I am a convert but I did not go through RCIA I went through private instruction with a seventy year old very orthodox Catholic priest and the process took from October 1992 to December 1993 by the time I was received in full communion in The Catholic Church I had been through every Holy day of obligation once and two of them twice.
 
I didn’t go through RCIA, I had been attending Catholic school for 4 years. After my parents divorced, I immediately appealed to the priest to become Catholic. The only reason I hadn’t before was because I was afraid of my dad.
 
Was baptized Catholic, but didnt receive the rest of the rites until 7 years ago.

I went thru RCIA.
You need a third option. 😉
 
I went through private instruction with a very Orthodox thinking priest in his seventies who I learned so much from considering that I came from a pentecostal church of God background. By the time I came into full communion to the Catholic Church I had been through all the holy days of obligation once and two of them twice.
 
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