Non-catholic to catholic what denominations u came from

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With the different denominations and emphasis of scripture.

What non-cat denomination did you come from and why did you change to traditional cath.
 
Non-denomination/Fundementalist Evangelical.

Why convert? 1. Eucharist - 2. Authority - 3. Moral Teachings…especially regarding marriage/divorce, contraception and restitution.
 
I used to attend an Evangelical parish in the Church of England before I converted. The reasons really had to do with support of the RC’s moral teachings, developing a belief in the Real Presence, and finding beautiful liturgy and the Ordinariate and a priest who was willing to engage with me on an intellectual level.
 
I was in a charismatic evangelical denomination, but their doctrine was too light and fluffy to keep me intellectually satisfied.

I then spent a few years in the PCA. They had a heavy emphasis on doctrine. It just turned out they were wrong.
 
Raised 2nd wave independent Baptist, went Reformed in college. Flirted with atheism shortly after. Decided Church must be visibly ancient, courted Catholicism and Orthodoxy, went with “Team Pope”.
 
The best label for me was Protestant (as in I did protest against the Catholic Church), but if you must put me in a denomination, the closest one I was ever in was Lutheranism. So I suppose, though would hesitate to say, I’m an ex-Lutheran. As to why Catholicism, I’ll borrow from Chesterton: “The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.” I’m in love with Catholicism, with the Church, her doctrines, her teachings, her traditions. When I read Catholic theology, I see the face of God. :o
 
Fundamentalist non denom for a few years.

Then baptized in a faithful Anglican church.

The more informed i became, the closer i got to the RCC…before finally crossing the Tiber the past few years.

Church history and the Eucharist looked very much Catholic to me as opposed to 21st century American Protestantism. I felt that Protestantism knows the scriptures but they view it through a lense that was never intended. No 1st Judea lense and Church tradition lense and you aren’t seeing the complete picture imo.

And matters of morality were a biggie as well. Prior to 1930 not one protestant denom was ok with contraception…now they all are. So either Protestantism taught error before 1930 or after 1930. And if they are wrong on birth control then they are likely wrong on other issues.
 
Episcopal/Anglican for about 18 years. Then no church for 22 years.
Then I began searching a little bit. Attended a few Sundays with a friend at her non-denominational multi-cultural church - the minister was very Calvinist. I then attended a few Sundays at a few different non-denominational churches. They just weren’t fulfilling without the liturgy and communion. I tried returning to the Episcopal church after a more than 20 year absence, but realized how non-traditional they had become and I wanted a church filled with the Truth and I wanted a
church that was pro-life. I realized the Catholic church had the Pope and having that authority figure as well as the Magesterium I later came to realize helped hold the Catholic church together and the Church was able to weather the storms that caused other churches or denominations to divide.
Yes, I humbled myself and submitted to the fact the Catholic Church is the one, holy, catholic and apostolic church.
 
I grew up in a nondenominational country church that was somewhere between Baptist and Pentecostal. I spent significant time during my teen years in the Church of Christ ‘nondenomination’ (Campbellite).

I was searching for solid truth and meaning that wasn’t fallible or man-made. Everything I heard in church growing up often depended upon who the pastor was and there would inevitably be a contradiction based on circumstances that were convenient for a few. (E.g., premarital pregnancy would be outright condemned for anyone until it happened to the deacon’s daughter.) My first Mass was presided over by a priest many would describe quite uncharitably (he was notoriously ill-suited for ministry), and in spite of that, I still felt something pulling me near the Altar that I didn’t quite grasp for many years…
 
United Church of Canada - experimented seriously with the Plymouth Brethren, and attended Baptist Sunday Schools and Vacation Bible Schools, and I attended a Youth Group as a teenager with the Campbellites (Church of Christ). I also attended readings of the Urantia Book, and was exposed to the beliefs of the Jehovah’s Witnesses and Scientologists along the way. In amongst all these things I also attended Mass beginning in August of 1983.

I never left the United Church of Canada until I felt a really strong call to become Catholic in late 2000. I was received into the Church at the Easter Vigil in 2001.

My reason - Jesus told me to. 🙂

Reasons to stay: It’s true. It’s complete. It makes sense. It provides a reliable moral compass in a very confusing world.

The Sacraments allow you to encounter Jesus in such a personal way that would completely blow the minds of my Baptist, Plymouth Brethren and Campbellite friends, if they could just open their minds to see it.

And, it’s bigger on the inside, and you can travel through time in it. :extrahappy:
 
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