Why would anyone become Catholic?

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[NKP_Vet]

Why would intelligent, successful people give up their careers, alienate their friends, and cause havoc in their families...to become Catholic? Indeed, why would anyone become Catholic?

As an evangelist and author who recently threw my own life into some turmoil by deciding to enter the Catholic Church, I've faced this question a lot lately. That is one reason I decided to make this documentary; it's part of my attempt to try to explain to those closest to me why I would do such a crazy thing.

Convinced isn't just about me, though. The film is built around interviews with some of the most articulate and compelling Catholic converts in our culture today, including Scott Hahn, Francis Beckwith, Taylor Marshall, Holly Ordway, Abby Johnson, Jeff Cavins, Devin Rose, Matthew Leonard, Mark Regnerus, Jason Stellman, John Bergsma, Christian Smith, Kevin Vost, David Currie, Richard Cole, and Kenneth Howell. It also contains special appearances by experts in the field of conversion such as Patrick Madrid and Donald Asci.

Ultimately, this is a story about finding truth, beauty, and fulfillment in an unexpected place, and then sacrificing to grab on to it. I think it will entertain and inspire you, and perhaps even give you a fresh perspective on an old faith.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Yes, your chosen religion teaches this; but it is not found to be true.

Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples. He went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem. As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”

"Why do you persecute me." --Jesus

[Elsie]

no they don't...they merely proclaim that certain people are definitely in Heaven....all in Heaven are Saints

Ain't prejudging folks FUN!!??!!

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Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.^[1]

Pope John XII (955–964), who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife.

Pope Benedict IX (1032–1044, 1045, 1047–1048), who "sold" the Papacy

Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303), who is lampooned in Dante's Divine Comedy

Pope Urban VI (1378–1389), who complained that he did not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured.^[2]

Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503), a Borgia, who was guilty of nepotism and whose unattended corpse swelled until it could barely fit in a coffin.^[3]

Pope Leo X (1513–1521), a spendthrift member of the Medici family who once spent 1/7 of his predecessors' reserves on a single ceremony^[4]

Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), also a Medici, whose power-politicking with France, Spain, and Germany got Rome sacked.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bad_Popes

[Elsie]

I don't know why a Catholic would do that but..........yes.

I predict exploding heads later in this thread.

[Elsie]

I stand corrected....I should have said that al TRUE Christians were Catholic....there were a few groups declaredto be teaching falsehoods who called themselves followers....they were in error.

[Elsie]

...there were a few groups declaredto be teaching falsehoods who called themselves followers....they were in error.

HMMMmmm...

The following are CATHOLIC CHURCHES:

They taught absolute truth...

[Elsie]

I feel the same way about mine!

(At least MOST of them.)

[Elsie]

I can’t believe you just posted that.

This response may be flooding his Private Mail box from TRUE Christians; too.

[Elsie]

What’s the nerd word for it?

[Elsie]

on your great roios box it says Rome’s own interpretation of scripture....that Interpretation has lasted for 2,014 years...

Yes?

I was right; correct?

And your chosen religions interpretation is the ONLY correct one; right?

Who's on YOUR dashboard?

[Elsie]

I know many so called believers who are far from being saints....

It ain't the well that need a Physician...

[Elsie]

I know many so called believers who are far from being saints....

...says the judger...

[Elsie]

I know many so called believers who are far from being saints....

as your chosen religion defines them...

[Elsie]

Rodman has some imagination -- a little light turned on in his brain "hey, I can have fun with this"

HMMMmmm...

I wonder what kind of cereal is his favorite...

[Elsie]

when He said unless you eat of the flesh of the Son of man and drink of His blood, you shall not have life within you...we took Him at His word.

And then your church said, "How will we make this happen???"

[Elsie]

...we took Him at His word.

Yet none of His disciples ran over and bit Him.

[Elsie]

born without sin....might she have had some sexual thoughts toward Joseph with whom she lived, might she not have felt anger when they tortured and crucified Jesus???

You mean Frustrated Joseph; the guy who was constantly picked on by his buds?

The guy who hung around for at least 12 years without ever getting to CONSUMATE his marriage?

[Elsie]

there are few, if any books directly written by God...

Oh?

Exodus 31:18
When the LORD finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the covenant law, the tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.

[Elsie]

Thinking about sex is sinful; it seems.

[Elsie]

Catholics never admit when they are wrong on this site.

Heck; they barely admit that ANY catholic was EVER wrong!

Except that DAMNED Luther!

[Elsie]

On the two occasions that I have erred I have admitted it gladly.

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