If You Could List Only One Reason to Believe in Roman Catholicism

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Truth, but before Truth, Love.

And, like I said before, having multiple saints to name things after is always a good thing. My MS Lutheran cousins, all their churches are named for Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, or Paul, and all their colleges and seminaries are named Concordia.
 
History.

As Cardinal Newman said, to be non-Catholic is to be ignorant of history.
 
By way of evolution comes forgiveness. Loosely translated, changes over time heals the wounds that hurt the most.
 
"If You Could List Only One Reason to Believe in Roman Catholicism… "

Because through it, God saved my life and gave me a chance to turn things around. After that, I knew there was no way it could be wrong- that it had to be everything it claimed to be.

Taken from Psalm 116 (RSV-CE):

“The snares of death encompassed me, the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me; I suffered distress and anguish. Then I called on the name of the Lord: 'O Lord, I beseech thee, save my life! Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; our God is merciful…For thou hast delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling; I walk before the Lord in the land of the living…What shall I render to the Lord for all his bounty to me? I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the Lord…I will pay my vows to the Lord in the presence of all his people, in the courts of the house of the Lord, in your midst, O Jerusalem. Praise the Lord!”
 
The Eucharist. period. I pray every day that all people could know the Eucharist…the greatest gift Christ left for us…Himself, in the flesh, everytime we recieve Communion.
 
Every time I have thought of leaving the Catholic Church it has been the Eucharist that has kept me here.
 
I’m a convert and the major reason I became Catholic was authority. Remember, as Rosalind Moss said on “Household of Faith”—God changed mens’ names 3 times in the Bible, the last being when Jesus called Peter the Rock. That has to mean something big!

Gloryb
 
Apostle X:
Christ created it, therefore it’s perfect
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Yes and no…The Church is likened to the mustard seed, it is always growing, developing and in need of reform, that is, until Christ comes again. 😉
 
The illogic of the position of sola scriptura, considering that Christians in the years after the death of Christ had no Bible (or, they had the Hebew scriptures, but no New Testament). So, if sola scriptura is true, did God not care about the salvation of souls until the church councils that finalized the canon of scripture?

(by the way, I’m not yet in the Catholic Church, but I’m on my way!)
 
The reason would be that no matter how far in history I go back, I find the Catholic Church. Right back to the 1st and 2nd Centuries. Love, Jaypeeto3 🙂
 
The only sound reason to believe in any truth-claim or belief system is that it is, in fact, true. I’m relieved to see that so many answers on this thread involve the centrality of truth, especially in our relativistic and pragmatic culture.

Our Lord, when speaking to Pontius Pilate, placed truth at the center of his own life and ministry. “I was born for this, I came into the world for this, to bear witness to the truth; and all who are on the side of truth listen to my voice” (Jn. 18:37). How can we, as his disciples, do any less?

God bless,
Don
 
The fullness of truth. All of the deposit of faith. Nothing missing, nothing misunderstood.
 
If I really think about everything the CC has to say and teach, it is all logical. Besides, I get that peaceful feeling because I know it is the Truth.
 
The Eucharist… (body and blood, soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ):amen:
 
Mot Juste:
History. The Catholic Church is the original Christian Church. All other claimants bear the burden of proof.
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Especially the history before the Bible. What did the Church look like , how did they act and govern, what did they beleive in? Who had the authority to decide which books were inspired by the Holy Spirit?

It comes down to both authority and history.
 
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