What are some good reasons to be Catholic?

All Roads Lead to Rome: 10 Reasons to Become Catholic

• The Faith is True.
• The Faith is Beautiful.
• The Faith is Good.
• A Cloud of Witnesses.
• The Sacraments.
• It’s filled with sinners…
• A faith for everyone.
• The Catholic Faith is a Fighting Faith.

Can someone be both Catholic and Orthodox?

Catholic canon law allows marriage between a Catholic and an Orthodox only if permission is obtained from the Catholic bishop.

Why do Orthodox reject the Pope?

Orthodox leaders in many countries view the Eastern Rite as an attempt to undermine their churches. Above all, Orthodox leaders reject the Vatican’s claim that the pope is an infallible interpreter of theology and that Catholicism is superior to other Christian faiths.

Can I become Orthodox?

When you visit your priest, he will likely have a specific set of instructions that you will need to follow in order to convert. You might need to become baptized at some point, but this will all be up to the priest. Those who are looking to convert to Orthodoxy are referred to as catechumens.

What happens when you become Catholic?

A person is said to be fully initiated in the Catholic Church when s/he has received the three sacraments of Christian initiation, Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist. This is achieved through a process of preparation. The usual practice is that a family will bring the baby to the Church for baptism.

Why did Catholicism become so popular?

The current population of Catholic is about 1.2 billion of the around 2 billion Christians. The Catholic Church is popular because it is the original Church of the first century. If was founded by Christ personally. All other Churches and ecclesial communities have men as their founders.

What do Orthodox think of the pope?

The Orthodox Church cannot accept the papal or institutional concept of the Church, for many reasons. Orthodoxy strives to remain faithful to the beliefs and practices of the ancient undivided Church.

Is it possible to become an Eastern Orthodox Catholic?

There is a universality to Catholicism that doesn’t exist in the Eastern Orthodox churches. For me to become Eastern Orthodox, I’d have to join a Church with a very specific ethnic or national identity.

What would happen if I became Orthodox?

If I became Orthodox, I would have to accept more Catholic things than I at first thought: purgatory, for example. Orthodox don’t traditionally use the word purgatory for the purification that happens after death, but they acknowledge that such a purification happens.

Do Orthodox Christians recognize the pope as a church?

Orthodox do not recognize the pope as having the kind of teaching and governing authority that the Catholic Church claims. When I was an Evangelical considering Catholicism—and previously, even when I was quite anti-Catholic—I recognized that there is a certain logic to the office of the papacy.

Are the Orthodox in communion with the Catholic Church?

Sure, the Orthodox aren’t quite in full communion with the Catholic Church, but they’re close enough that, in the past, we’ve celebrated in the same churches. From a Catholic perspective, converting from Protestantism to Orthodoxy is a move deeper into full Catholic union, in a way that converting from one Protestant denomination to another is not.