Why am I Catholic ?

The title is a question and the question deserves to be answered. There are over 300 different religions in the United States of America, so why am I Catholic? G.K. Chesterton wrote an essay of the same title, he said "The difficulty of explaining “why I am a Catholic” is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true." Now I am no Chesterton, he was one of the greatest modern thinkers of the Catholic Church. This blog will not be just a summary of Chesterton's work. It is going to have my own reason, personal reasons and Bible reasons.  The first big reason  is that I was born into it.  Some people would call me a   cradle Catholic that means that I am born and raised. It might seem like a lame reason, but it isn't more or less it is because it was passed down from my parents to me, from their parents to them. It is a very Catholic thing.  The second reason is that it is apostolic & is the only faith that can be traced down to Christ.  Apostolic is a term that means of or relating to a succession of spiritual authority from the apostles held to be perpetuated by successive ordinations of bishops and to be necessary for valid sacraments and orders.  This is the Catholic church in a nutshell. It is the only Church that can be traced straight to Jesus Christ himself. No other faith in the world can said it was started by Our Savior, when he said the words “This is my body & this is my blood, do this in memory of me.” He created The Mass and there is nothing more catholic than The Mass. Because it is progressive, most non Catholics see the church as old and out dated. But did you know 200 years before the Enlightenment was even a thing, during and age that was full of Kings with Divine right (Kings being chosen by God to be Kings.).  Cardinal and Saint Robert  Bellarmine and Suarez the Spaniard laid down lucidly the whole theory of real democracy. For a more modern example Pope Leo XIII (13^th) wrote his very cutting edge encyclical on Labor called Rerum Novarum. He wrote it during what is called in history classes “The Industrial Revolution.” , and he wrote about workers’ rights when workers had no real rights.

The last reason is I am Catholic because it makes sense, it comes straight from Jesus Christ , He himself established it. He established the Eucharist, Confession, and holy orders, and then confirmation. Jesus created it and why wouldn’t you want to be a part of that religion.