Why are you a Catholic?

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I ask, why are you a Catholic and what brought you to the Catholic faith. For me, Catholicism is a part of my heritge and culture, it is, I believe, the Church established by Jesus.
 
Hi Sara,

well, I was raised Catholic and wouldn’t be anything else, because…

It IS the church that Christ founded and i could never give Him up.
It is true. what else is there? Isla , Buddism? naaaaaaaa
It is beautiful. the most beautiful religion imo

that said i’ve been having a faith crisis recently, but not about religion about if there’s a God at all. but that’s another story.

i’m Itallian too. :yup:
 
I love the Lord Jesus Christ. He is not only spiritually present, buy physically present in the Catholic Church, which I entered at age 35.
 
I was raised Catholic, but for most of my life didn’t think much about my faith. I just “went through the motions”, doing nothing more than Mass on Sundays and prayer before meals. I didn’t think much about God or about what being Catholic meant.
At the start of this year I went through a kind of “spiritual awakening”. I was brought closer to God, to Jesus and to Mary. I began to realise just how beautiful Catholicism is, and now I wouldn’t dream of being anything else.

Just walking into a church and knowing that Jesus is really, truly there, just smelling the incense or watching the candles burn - it fills me with so much wonder and love.
 
I was raised as one, it is the One True Faith. It is the only one that makes real sense to me. I mean, I can make sense of why people would want to be other faiths, but this is the one that I really get get. You know? The only one that actually makes sense.
 
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I ask, why are you a Catholic and what brought you to the Catholic faith. For me, Catholicism is a part of my heritge and culture, it is, I believe, the Church established by Jesus.
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I did the research, and nothing else made any sense.
 
like sparroehawk a spiritual awaking after many years of rejecting the faith i had grown up with
 
There are many reasons why I am Catholic. However, the sacraments, especially the Eucharist are the one part of the Catholic Church I don’t find anywhere else. I can’t imagine worshipping without the Eucharist; and I can’t imagine living without the grace we receive from the other sacraments.

One time I attended a service of another faith. At first I thought, “This is familiar - familiar hymns, the sermon conformed to my beliefs.” But then it was over and I thought, “Hey wait. You forgot something. We’re not finished!”
 
Born and raised a Catholic.I became a rather lazy Catholic beginning in my twenties,never fully left my faith,however,I don’t think I fully understood or appreciated this beautiful gift of my Catholic faith.It was not until my early fifties,when my husband converted to Catholisim,that I was inflamed with the desire to live my faith to it’s fullest.I always thought I loved Jesus,however,now I am “in love” with Him.God is good!🙂
 
Sara_Balzano said:
I ask, why are you a Catholic and what brought you to the Catholic faith. For me, Catholicism is a part of my heritge and culture, it is, I believe, the Church established by Jesus.
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I am Catholic because I can be nothing else.
  • I cannot be an Atheist, for I cannot reject God even for a moment
  • I cannot be a non-Christian, because I cannot reject Christ and His message
  • Since I must follow Christ in His message, as recorded, I must also except the resurrection - which I find to be both reasonable and beautiful anyway.
  • I cannot be Protestant because I cannot reconcile the protestant view with what I see in the Bible and in history. The Catholic (and EO) views and structures on the other hand are both historically and biblically consistant.
  • Then there is the Eucharist…What can I say…
I was raised Catholic but spent 35 years away from the Church. Boy and I glad to be home.

EDIT: I forgot…The Church has such a rich and diverse tradition of spiritualities from the deeply mystic to the deeply charismatic, from exterior and communal to interior and contemplative/monastic. It is just so embracing of so much…

Peace
James
 
I was blessed to be born into the wonderful Catholic faith

Jesus Christ founded it

My love and devotion to Our Blessed Mother

… I can’t imagine myself anything else … my faith is MY way of life

(and I’m Itallian also)
 
Why Catholic? Because it is the only Church that claims to trace itself back to Peter and through Peter to Christ, who said, “Thou art Peter, and upon this rock (petros) I will build my Church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.” 👍
 
I was raised Catholic, but like someone else said, for many years I went through the motions. Never missed Mass, always ‘loved’ God, etc etc…I was blessed enough to find a woman to marry that was willing to convert from Pentecostal. We have raised our children in the Church. I have never ever doubted my faith, but I can honestly say that I did not take it seriously enough until a few months ago. We were having some issues in our marriage and I turned to God for help. Around the same time, I found this forum. I started to really come to know what it meant to be Catholic and I know that I take my faith 100x more seriously than I ever have before. Not just saying it, but now I really strive to live it every day. I am starting to feel that ‘true happiness’ now that I have a better relationship with God.

I don’t believe any of this would have happened without being Catholic.
 
Born into the Hindu faith then became an atheist as none of those gods answered my prayers. Became a strong atheist bordering on antitheism. After suffering much I realized I was in a circular loop that only I could break: I wouldn’t believe in God because God wouldn’t show Himself; God wouldn’t show Himself without me having the faith of a mustard seed. I realized the stupidity of it all, realizing I would be condemning myself by not taking the initiative, and decided to take it on faith that God, should He exist, would help me find Him if I truly sought Him with all my heart. I prayed and the Christian God showed me He existed after much blind fumbling, looking for God by surrendering my life and all my worldly desires for that question to be answered.

Then, after seeing through Protestant lies and calumnies I realized none of them seemed to know historical Christianity: they wouldn’t be accusing Catholics of making up doctrines if they knew what historical Christians believed. Thus, both by mystical experience and reason, I came to the realization that Christianity is the fullness of truth and Catholicism is the fullness of Christianity.
 
I would also like that Catholicism feels far more organic, if that makes any sense. Out of curiosity, I have attended many Protestant services. I must note that the majority of the Protestants in my nation are British immigrants, so the churches I went to were Anglican. I have also attended many Protestant services in other countries, since I am frequent traveler. To me, the Protestant faith, in general, feels manmade and bland. In a Catholic church, I feel a sense of peace and I sense a benevolent presence. In Protestant churches, however, I feel as though I am in just another public building, such as a library.
 
I am Catholic because of the grace of God. It seems to me that most of the time I’ve done everthing I can to leave my faith. However, God keeps chasing me down and bringing me back. I love the sacrement of confession. It brings so much healing to me. Amen!
 
I am on the road to Catholicism because I believe the Holy Spirit called me home after a period of teenage angst, agnosticism, and apathy. I found Protestantism to be spiritually dry, as if something was missing. I thank the Holy Spirit and my current girlfriend of five years, for they both served to tug me in the right direction. Although my baptism has been delayed due to mistakes made by myself and the RCIA program of my parish, I cannot wait until I’m accepted fully into the Church.
 
I am a Catholic for much the same reason I am a scientist.

Science depends on the belief that the universe makes sense - that there is casualty, reason, and logic, and if we try long enough and hard enough we’ll eventually have all the answers. We have no reason to believe that the universe isn’t entirely random, and that if A = B now A will equal B after ten minutes. Few scientists will admit it, but science is all about faith.

I was born into a Catholic family, went to Catholic school for 6 years, and learned a lot about Theology. I liked the Philosophy of it, but I disagreed with some of the Church’s actions in the past, disliked how close minded and bigoted some of my teachers were (I now understand that many of their beliefs were not official Catholic policy), and in general found a lot of it unbelievable.

For a time I was a militant agnostic. I didn’t think that there was a way for anyone to know if there was a God or not, and if a theist and an atheist started fighting in front of me, I’d wack them both upside the head.

But eventually I realized that I was profoundly unhappy. I didn’t believe in justice, love, free will, or morality. I realized that I lost my faith that there is an order to the universe, faith that I would need to remain a scientist, or even to stay alive.

I decided that the one thing I could be certain of was Descartes’ old “I think, therefore I am.” Then I decided that I wanted to believe that there was an order to the interactions of objects, and that if I believed this when I wasn’t one hundred percent certain that objects even existed, I should also believe that there is an order to the interactions of people, of which I am absolutely sure there is at least one of.

I researched different philosophies and religions, and eventually decided that Catholicism was the most internally and externally consistent, and so here I am today.

TL; DR: I don’t do faith well, so I had to come here the long way.
 
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