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- Religion is good. Religion is not the distorted, war-mongering mindlessness that secularism may try to make it out to be. It is a re-tying of ourselves to God, a strengthening of relationship with our Heavenly Father, a way of life, a disciplined defense against the devil’s tricks.
- Authority. Contemporary society does not like authority. Well, no authority above themselves. But, accepting the reality that God is King and loves us is freeing.
- Liturgy. The liturgy is beautiful. Stunning. Shockingly similar yet beautifully various in every Catholic parish throughout the world.
- Saints as friends not judges. They pray for you, will help heal you and the Church like doctors, call you out for your wrong actions by their witness to the Truth while never pretending to be God by condemning you to hell.
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 I Am A Catholic ..... Because I Believe That Catholicism Is True
- Chapter 2 I Am A Catholic ..... Because It's The Best of Five Choices
Since I have ADD and get bored very easily, I believe books should be short. Since introductions are almost always boring, I also believe introductions should be short. My title explains itself. But it is misleading: there are more than forty reasons. In fact, there are at least ten to the eighty-second power, which (I am told) is the number of ato...
I am Catholic because I believe that Catholicism is true. It seems obvious to me that to believe that something is true is the first and only honest reason for anybody ever to believe anything. If that is not obvious to you, if that is not your very first reason for believing whatever you believe, then I think you are not being totally honest with ...
There are many religions in the world. Why did I choose to be a Catholic? Here are the steps in my reasoning. My first choice was between religion and no religion. Religion means a "yoke" or a "binding-back relationship." Religion is a relationship with God. (Godhere is taken in the broadest sense as at least some higher power, something greater th...
- Fr. Joseph Esper
- Only the Catholic Church can trace its roots back to Christ Himself. Within a few short years of the Resurrection, the followers of Jesus began calling themselves “Christians” (cf.
- The Eucharist—the Real Presence of Christ—is not found in Protestant churches. Jesus described himself as the bread of life, stating that whoever eats his flesh and drinks his blood will have life eternal (John 6:54).
- Unlike other Christians, Catholics have a fully sacramental understanding of God’s saving activity. The word “sacramental” is here used in three different senses.
- Because of the Church’s magisterium, Catholics have the assurance that their beliefs are divinely revealed truths, not human interpretations and opinions.
- CATHOLICISM IS REASONABLE. There are many aspects of Catholic belief that cannot be immediately reached by deductive reasoning: that God is a Trinity, for example.
- CATHOLICISM IS HISTORICAL. C.S. Lewis in his essay “God in the Dock” remarked that many of the unbelievers he encountered had no trouble believing in prehistoric man; but there was a paradox
- CATHOLICISM IS BIBLICAL. We’ve talked about historical sources that support the claims and beliefs of Catholicism; but we haven’t talked about the primary source, both theologically and historically: the written Word of God.
Each Catholic should be able to provide a solid, well-thought answer to the question, "Why are you a Catholic?" Granted, for each individual the answer is very personal and may be somewhat different from other people's answers.
Then you may begin to guess why Catholicism insists that there are evil spirits as well as good; and that materials also may be sacred, as in the Incarnation or the Mass, in the sacrament of marriage or the resurrection of the body.
Jul 15, 2021 · The first question can be answered in a single sentence: I entered the Catholic Church because I became convinced in my head and in my heart that the Catholic Church is who she claims to be: the one Church that our Lord Jesus Christ founded to carry out His mission in this world and which is guided by the Holy Spirit to preach and teach the ...
