This article assumes that you already are a Christian, a Messianic Jew, or believer in Yeshua (Jesus), however you wish to call yourself. See the last page of this article for links to articles that may be more relevant to you if you do not believe in Jesus.

Why Be Catholic?

Perhaps you think that the idea of becoming Catholic is the most absurd idea you have ever heard.

Perhaps you think that the Bible alone is sufficient for you to know God's will for your life.

Perhaps you think that God is not interested in 'religion' or institutions but merely wishes to have a personal relationship with you.

Perhaps you think that the only thing really necessary to be saved is to receive Jesus into your heart as Lord and Savior.

Perhaps you are Jewish and think that to become Catholic would amount to a betrayal of your Jewish faith and heritage.

Perhaps you even hold anti-Catholic views and think that Catholicism is a pagan corruption of the pure biblical faith.

Yet perhaps you feel that there is "something missing" to your faith.

Perhaps you feel that God has "something more" for you, but you haven't quite figured out yet what this is.

Looking back through history, from the first to the twenty-first century, from the ancient Mediterranean world to modern America, countless people have thought like you - either mildly curious, indifferent, distrusting or even despising the Catholic Church... until one day they decided to seriously investigate the Church's claims. Again and again, an inquiry which began out of curiosity or even animosity toward the Church ended as a wondrous love story: the story of a God so passionately in love with us that He offered His only Son to die for us in order that we may have eternal life, and formed his human family, the Catholic (universal) Church for the purpose of sharing with His children His own divine life, most especially in the sacrament of the Eucharist.

In this article, as well as through the other resources available on this website, you can discover how:

• God has never said that the Bible alone is enough to know His will, but rather has set up, both in the Old and New Testaments, a visible, hierarchical institution and endowed it with His own divine authority to guide us and lead us into His way of salvation.
• God is indeed very interested in 'religion' today, just as He was interested in it when He set up the Tabernacle and Temple worship in ancient Israel. A genuine, honest, humble and well-informed personal relationship with the Father through the Son and in the Holy Spirit should logically and eventually lead you to seek full communion with His Body, the Catholic Church.
• To "receive Jesus as Lord and Savior" by faith alone is not enough to be saved; for Jesus imparts his grace, his power, and his life to us chiefly through the Church, her teachings, her liturgy and sacraments, and her communion of saints.
• The Catholic faith is the perfect and complete fulfillment of Judaism - yet this does not abolish the particular calling of the people of Israel nor the special vocation of Jews who enter the Church. As Rosalind Moss, who is Jewish-Catholic, has said, "you can't be more Jewish than to be Catholic!"
• The Catholic faith is the most biblical form of Christianity, whereas other denominations have generally compromised important gifts that Jesus has given us.