How to convert to Catholicism

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I just joined this forum, so if i do something wrong, correct me.

I’m 15, i was born to a protestant mother and a catholic father, my mother was the one to guide to religion, my whole life i was a evangelical protestant, my father never really taught anything related to Catholicism.

I’m not gonna talk about the time i was an atheist when i was 12 to 14, let’s just jump to my spiritual conversion, i always liked politics and i was very conservative, and i notice a lot of conservatives where Catholics, so i started searching about it, when i started reading about it, i was shocked, my mother never taught me this, and i thought it was beautiful, seeing it comforted my lonely atheist heart, seeing Mary and the other saints made me feel comforted, something i never felt in Protestantism, and now, that i think that the catholic church is the one true church, i want to become a full on catholic, but there’s a problem, my mother is very protestant, and i don’t want her to become the only protestant in the family (the only thing that i don’t like about her being protestant, is the fact tha she didn’t baptized, even when my father asked).

If my English is bad, sorry, it is not my first language
 
Warriorforchrist said:
You don’t need to join a religion
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I find it ironic that you call yourself Warrior for Christ, but you don’t believe that Christianity is a religion I would do two things, were I you, the first one is read James chapter 1 verses 26 and 27, the second one is look up the etymology of the word religion. If you don’t believe we need religion, you don’t believe we need God.
 
I’ve read the Bible cover to cover twice, the New Testament almost five times, I’m on my fifth read through, and I have done quite a bit of Bible study for the last 11 years. I don’t know what you’re getting at, coming to a Catholic site, where presumably a lot of Catholics here know their faith, and saying stuff like that.
 
First of all, you’re 15 so for now you have to “honor your parents” by obeying them until you are an adult. So you would need to discuss any kind of wish you have to be a Catholic with them. Presumably your dad would be fine with it but maybe your mother would not be. I’m pretty sure if you spoke to a Catholic priest he would want you to talk to your parents first.

Second, let’s say that you become an adult and can make your own choices, or that your parents right now say they are okay with you becoming a Catholic. The next step would be to talk to a priest, or someone he refers you to such as a staff person, about attending some classes to learn more about Catholicism. You would not have to commit to joining the Church at that stage and it would probably be good for you to just learn more about the Church before making any sort of decision.

As for your mom, she married a Catholic man, so perhaps she doesn’t dislike Catholicism all that much. You would really need to talk to her more about it and it might take more than one talk over a period of time. In any event she would still be your mom and you would still love her and she would love you even if your religion was that of your father rather than her own.

Anyway you have a lot of time to consider this. I would say focus right now on learning about Catholicism in whatever way you can, even if it’s just reading from books, and ask God to guide you and help you with the rest of the process.
 
why is your picture a Catholic Priest if you are not religious? Seems very odd…
 
@Warriorforchrist, I suspect your posts may be infringing the CAF rules enjoining all posters to be duly respectful of the Catholic faith, given that this is a Catholic website maintained by a Catholic diocese. I’m not sure, so I’m not flagging any of your posts, but I would request @camoderator to take a look and see what he thinks.
 
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