Hello everyone,
I think the thing that brings me here is the search for answers and the interesting discussions that take place. I’ve been here from time to time over the years, but have only now created an account in order to take part in such discussions.
I was baptised Catholic, but never confirmed. From time to time over the years I’ve considered myself as Catholic, but never actually knew what it meant to be ‘Catholic’. I attended Catholic services for a short time with my wife and son. I thought that ‘being’ Catholic, I would walk right in there and everything would be apparent to me, but it wasn’t. I think that is probably why I stopped attending - everything was confusing to me, and I did not understand what was going on or how I was supposed to conduct myself during the service. So I figured that I must not be Catholic after all. Then for a number of years after that I simply considered myself Protestant. I wonder if anyone here has been in a similar circumstance? Hindsight being what it is, I should have simply spoken with a Priest and asked questions, but of course I did not.
If I sought to become Catholic, would that make me a convert or would I be returning to the Church? Just curious…
) After spending a year at Calvary Chapel and studying scripture, I concluded that History is not on the Calvary Chapel radar! They would say all sorts of stuff like “**Catholics believe this, but the bible says” **in every sermon, so I decided to look into what exactly the Catholic Church teaches, being that my family is Catholic. I mean how else could they be saved from the Roman papist system if they never heard the true gospel (according to Calvary Chapel of course 
) needless to say, the Calvary Chapel “pastors” have no idea what the Catholic Church teaches, so they echo memes endlessly 
