Catholicism. Why It's Right For Me - 4/11/2026
I hope this is my shortest post ever. We're traveling for a couple weeks, and I want to make a post before we depart to clearly make the basis for my Catholic faith known. First a little housekeeping: I don't "believe in" the Pope. I believe and accept he is Christ's vicar on earth based on Jesus's biblical assertion that Peter is the rock on which His Church was built. (Matthew 16:17-19) That doesn't make the Church perfect in every way, nor does it confer infallibility in ALL things on the Pope. I don't think I'm any better off, as far as my eternal salvation goes, than any Jesus-loving, Bible-believing Protestant is. Read that again if you need to. I am NOT making a case against Protestantism. I am explaining why I choose to stay in the Catholic Church. I do assert, though, that Protestants miss out when it comes to the Eucharist. Period. Can and are Protestants saved without it? Yes. Any Catholic who say otherwise is ill-informed. But I do beli...