Non-Catholics, how did you come across CAF?

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To all of the non-Catholics here, how did you come across CAF, and what made you stay?
 
Milestone said:
To all of the non-Catholics here, how did you come across CAF, and what made you stay?
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I’ve watched EWTN for many many years, and followed their forums when more people participated and more theologians answered those questions, as time went on, there was less participation so I searched the net for active forums. I stayed here because of the Non-Catholic forum and the participation by so many different denominations. I’ve also made several acquaintances here that I like to see their opinions/reactions to things.

I’ve had specific questions I want a variety of views on as I try to sus out the truth, and this is a good forum to ask them in.
 
I heard about CAF in a Youtube video. I was watching a video in which Dr. James White says that the people of CAF accused him of being “not very nice”.

I keep coming here because I like the community :D. It’s fun to share Islam with people and I like to learn about Catholicism. Because of this forum, I decided to buy myself a copy of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
 
XM Catholic Channel → AM 1050 (Seatle) Sacred Heart Radio → EWTN programming → EWTN website → Catholic Answers Forum
 
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I’ve watched EWTN for many many years, and followed their forums when more people participated and more theologians answered those questions, as time went on, there was less participation so I searched the net for active forums.
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I know what you mean … I don’t recall whether that was how I first heard about CA, but I certainly aware, about a decade ago, that one of their 13 categories (Apologetics: Defending the Faith) was staffed by Catholic Answers. (I went to the EWTN website a lot in those days because of their “Eastern Catholic Churches” category.)
 
It’s been so many years I’ve forgotten but the main reason I’ve continued on this forum is to respond to questions about Baha’i Faith or to attempt to correct inaccuracies about it.
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Though I’m now a Catholic I first came here as a non-Catholic. I came here because I had questions about what the Catholic Church actually taught. I wanted to hear from Catholics themselves. As I recall I did an internet search about the Blessed Virgin Mary. A link came up to the forums. I found not only the post and discussion helpful but lots of other posts about questions I had. I found this forum particularly helpful with the diverse viewpoints.
 
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To all of the non-Catholics here, how did you come across CAF, and what made you stay?
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Came across it when I asked a question regarding Catholicism on Google years ago.

I hang around primarily to get a different perspective from my own. CAF tends to contain far more conservative people than myself and those I typically encounter in daily life (Catholic, Protestant or otherwise).
 
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To all of the non-Catholics here, how did you come across CAF, and what made you stay?
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I came across CAF in May of 2014 after channel-surfing on the car radio on my way home from work one day when I was bored. I stumbled across a local Catholic radio station that was playing a Gregorian chant – I always found those fascinating. Apparently they had about 5 to 10 minutes to fill up before their next program, which was ‘Kresta in the Afternoon’ which I found very informative and top notch. After continuing to listen for a week or so to Catholic radio and having questions, I heard an invitation to join CAF on one of the programs, and they emphasized you didn’t have to be Catholic to join and that you could ask all the questions you want about Catholicism.

I’ve stayed because:
  1. I still have questions about Catholicism, although many others have already been answered.
  2. I find Catholicism fascinating yet a bit intimidating at the same time.
  3. My interactions here have helped me grow in my relationship with Christ.
  4. Being around Catholics and other Christians from other traditions has helped me become more understanding of other faith traditions and why they do some of things they do and believe some of the things that used to puzzle me.
  5. I can potentially see myself becoming a Catholic some day because I sometimes feel I could potentially be more well-rounded and mature if I were Catholic, although I remain happy in my current faith tradition.
 
Tommy999 said:
  1. I can potentially see myself becoming a Catholic some day because I sometimes feel I could potentially be more well-rounded and mature if I were Catholic, although I remain happy in my current faith tradition.
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May your journey be filled with much spiritual blessing and wisdom from the Lord to lead you where He wants to.

God bless you.

Reuben
 
While I was doing a bit of research before proposing to my wife. While I had a vague idea about Catholicism, I didn’t want to ask her certain questions for fear of sounding like I was interrogating her plus I didn’t want to give her false hope of conversion. Also, I worried shine questions could be inadvertently be offensive even when none was meant. Ironically, my time here has proven that to be the case.

This place was mentioned on EWTN (on Sirius) and it also showed up during a lot of my Googling. I stayed because religion is absolutely fascinating to me even though I don’t believe.
 
I’m a cradle Catholic but I fell away from the Church in high school. 30 years later when I returned, I was doing research about confession (since it had been so long I forgot most of it) and came across CAF.
 
Milestone said:
To all of the non-Catholics here, how did you come across CAF, and what made you stay?
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I was engaged to be married to a Catholic so I decided to do a bit of research into her religion. That research brought me to CAF. I’ve learned many “interesting” things about Catholicism from this site.

I married her anyway.
 
I don’t remember to be honest. I stayed because I wanted to learn more about what Catholicism has in common with other denominations beyond just ‘mere Christianity’ and differences in traditions, etc. Also, it helped me see things that Christians hold in common can be viewed or arrived at differently.
 
After some “interesting” experiences in the Catholic church after getting married…and now having children whom one of which is starting to close in on first baptism age I decided to do a little research to see how common my experiences have been, which lead me to google, which lead me here. Pretty much it.
 
Doing research relative to another matter and found through keyword search.

Continue to comment/etc to further understand the world, whether Catholic or not.
 
Nagging questions & uncertainties that I’d never have found the answers to offline. I grew up in a part of the American South that has extremely few Catholics, and even fewer observant ones. Though raised in a Christian household, I grew up utterly ignorant of anything remotely “high church” (I had to look up the Our Father as an adult).

Problem is: if you read a lot, it becomes tough to understand what you read without being conversant with the full context of Western civilization. And that includes the traditional modes of Christendom that many Europeans, and many Americans from older urban milieux, take for granted. And taking it for granted, they assume that no one will ever need to have it explained! So curing my ignorance required some serious scouting-around on the Internet … which led me at last to this site.
 
Le_Cracquere said:
Nagging questions & uncertainties that I’d never have found the answers to offline. I grew up in a part of the American South that has extremely few Catholics, and even fewer observant ones. Though raised in a Christian household, I grew up utterly ignorant of anything remotely “high church” (I had to look up the Our Father as an adult).

Problem is: if you read a lot, it becomes tough to understand what you read without being conversant with the full context of Western civilization. And that includes the traditional modes of Christendom that many Europeans, and many Americans from older urban milieux, take for granted. And taking it for granted, they assume that no one will ever need to have it explained! So curing my ignorance required some serious scouting-around on the Internet … which led me at last to this site.
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Interesting to me relative to the people I have known for years who are loyal and practicing, growing in that part of the world, New Jersey at birth and gaining my origins of God from my late mother from Catholicism.

Make the world a better place with tact and respect.
 
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