1. The first reason I'm a Catholic is because of the Catholic saints!
Especially, St francis of Assasi, and St Padre Pio, St Alphonsus Liguori, and a shout out to confirmation Saint, St Maximilian kolbe.
St Alphonsus Liguori, the day he was baptised as a Catholic, when he was 16 until the day he died at 90, he never committed (ONE) mortal sin. You can't get holiness like this where God has cursed.
St Alphonsus Liguori, the day he was baptised as a Catholic, when he was 16 until the day he died at 90, he never committed (ONE) mortal sin. You can't get holiness like this where God has cursed.
2. The second reason is the communion of Saint's!
I was watching a Protestant called Sam Shamoun do a seven part series on the communion of Saint's, please check it out, it's on YouTube. One thing that I did pick up was when he said, you need to know that the Saint's are in heaven who's intercessions you are requesting. So, I would say, we need a infallible Church to tell us who's intercessions we can ask for, right?
The last thing we need is to ask for their prayers, or venerate someone who is in hell. I think the devil would like that.
I was watching a Protestant called Sam Shamoun do a seven part series on the communion of Saint's, please check it out, it's on YouTube. One thing that I did pick up was when he said, you need to know that the Saint's are in heaven who's intercessions you are requesting. So, I would say, we need a infallible Church to tell us who's intercessions we can ask for, right?
The last thing we need is to ask for their prayers, or venerate someone who is in hell. I think the devil would like that.
3. The third reason is Contraception!
For me, this is the best argument for Catholicism.
I don't want to go into to much depth with this, as I want to do a entire blog on it. But no Christian before the 1930s tolarated contraception, and now its seeping through Christianity like a plague. The only church that still teaches contraception is always immoral, is the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church!!
For me, this is the best argument for Catholicism.
I don't want to go into to much depth with this, as I want to do a entire blog on it. But no Christian before the 1930s tolarated contraception, and now its seeping through Christianity like a plague. The only church that still teaches contraception is always immoral, is the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church!!
Eastern Orthodoxy:
An official document of the Russian Orthodox Church prohibits contraception "except when it is specifically approved by a confessor" does not involve the possibility of aborting a conceived child, is for reasons of inability to raise a child, and is done with spousal consent
4. The Miracles!
I could write all year about the miracles, but will focus on 2. St Padre Pio had the stigmata, and could tell the penitents in confession their sins before they could. There was a man called Joe Greco. Joe see St Padre Pio in a dream and he ask him if he could heal his Father. Not long after his Father was healed. So Joe went to visit St Padre Pio, and before he could reach him, the Saint said, so your Father is alright then? So Joe started thinking in his head, was it you? Was it you? And the Saint replied, in the dream.
I could write all year about the miracles, but will focus on 2. St Padre Pio had the stigmata, and could tell the penitents in confession their sins before they could. There was a man called Joe Greco. Joe see St Padre Pio in a dream and he ask him if he could heal his Father. Not long after his Father was healed. So Joe went to visit St Padre Pio, and before he could reach him, the Saint said, so your Father is alright then? So Joe started thinking in his head, was it you? Was it you? And the Saint replied, in the dream.
In the Seventeenth century the Franciscan Friar; St Joseph of Cupertino, who was saintly, levitated. About Joseph, the writer Colin Wilson, (Who is no friend of the Catholic Church) in his classic 1971 study, The Occult, wrote, " The weight of the evidence is such that we know that Joseph of Cupertino was able to fly when he was in ecstasy, as well as we know that Napoleon died on St Helena.
"St Joseph flew, there is no possible doubt about it" He flew on the Altar, through candles (that never burned him) and flew back again.
Just to add, in Colin's work on the occult, he also mentioned, St Dunstan of Glastonbury. He says that, St Dunstan was able to change the position of the Church by pushing it, and doesn't know how to explain it.
5. Exorcisms.
Thanks to socal media, we can find out a lot more than we used too. YouTube has lots of channels about exorcisms and there is a good channel called:
"The Exorcism files"
It's real cases from Fr Martin's exorcisms, and it's got audio from real actors playing the parts of the story. Some really good episodes, and chilling stuff.
In Dr Richard Gallaghers book called, "Demonic foes" He talks about a case of a women named Julia who was possessed. He talks about how one evening at 3am (the Demonic hour btw) when he and his wife was asleep, they woke to to the noise of their cats almost killing each other. Later that day there was a knock at the door. It was the Priest and Julia. The Priest said, "there is a girl here that I want you to meet" She looked at him and said, with a slight smirk, "how was them cats last night"?
This is only scratching the surface. If you listen to the exorcists, you can hear all kinds of different Exorcisms stories. Ie, People claiming up walls, speaking in languages that there is no way they could known, etc...
There is a old saying, lots hate the Catholic Church until they need a exorcist Priest.
6. The fifth reason I'm Catholic is because there is a Pope in every century!
The Orthodox Christians like to say that the Pope started to punch above his weight, so the Pope now and back then is different. But if there was a Pope back then, that means that his office was instituted by Christ, so it's not the Pope/Church you have a problem with, it's Christ himself, especially when our Lord declares;
I will be with you always, even until the end of age.
Matthew 28:20.
The Orthodox Christians like to say that the Pope started to punch above his weight, so the Pope now and back then is different. But if there was a Pope back then, that means that his office was instituted by Christ, so it's not the Pope/Church you have a problem with, it's Christ himself, especially when our Lord declares;
I will be with you always, even until the end of age.
Matthew 28:20.
God bless.
