Why Catholic?

One of the biggest misconceptions in the Catholic faith is that people think we "hate" gays. This statement is extremely inaccurate. I think people assume this because they don't really know what the Church teaches. It is our of ignorance that they come up with this way of thinking.  So what does the Church believe in?  The Catechism of the Catholic Church, which is a text that contains dogmas and teachings of the Church, names "homosexual acts " as "intrinsically immoral and contrary to the natural law". It names these homosexual desires as "objectively disordered". So this means that the Church doesn't see homosexual orientation as a sin in itself. The sin would be to act on those disordered desires. The reason Catholics believe this is a disorder, comes from the fall of Adam and Eve. When God created humanity, he never intended for there to be evil in the world. But he did give us free will. So once Adam and Eve went against Go...

First, I’d like to say Happy Easter! HE HAS RISEN! As Christians, we are all familiar with the resurrection of Christ. But do we really understand the resurrection? Do we ever wonder why it had to happen? Do we know that our faith could NOT exist if Easter Sunday never happened? I’m not belittling your knowledge, but I think it’s important to dig deeper into this topic to truly understand the cause and effects of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. For most of my life, I just knew that “Jesus died and rose for us to save us from sins”. But I never even questioned that statement to investigate further. Before my conversion, I kind of just believed it. But since I didn’t see the full picture, the passion of Christ didn’t fill me with the joy that it does today. Let’s start at the beginning of Genesis. God originally wanted creation to exist without evil, but humans messed up His plan. God’s first people, Adam and Eve, had been tempted by the devil in the Garden...