Why I'm Catholic

By Tim Rohr

Recently, the elderly owner of an NBA basketball team made a racial remark and was forced to give up his team. A well-known TV chef admitted to using the "N" word thirty years ago and her show was cancelled. An NFL football player made what was judged to be an intolerant comment about the first openly gay NFL draftee and was sent to sensitivity training. But make the most hideous remarks and jokes about nuns, priests, or Catholicism in general, and you move to the front of the class.

Fr. James Martin has called anti-Catholicism in America "The last acceptable prejudice." Why is this? Some of it is our own doing. We have been too tolerant of our internal Judases. But I would say that what Archbishop Fulton Sheen said nearly half a century ago is still true: “There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.”

But why is the Catholic Church still so "wrongly perceived" that it has now become the "last acceptable prejudice?" I would contend that it is because regular "cradle Catholics" like me have failed to "give a reason for our faith" (1 Pet 3:15). Well, here's mine.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tim Rohr
• Release date: Jun 13, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311828583

Tim Rohr

Tim Rohr is small business owner, a happy husband and grateful father of eleven.

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WHY I'M CATHOLIC

by Tim Rohr

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Copyright © 2014 Timothy J. Rohr

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter 1: We Begin At The End

Chapter 2: Beyond The End

Chapter 3: True Story Or Monstrous Ruse?

Chapter 4: The Roman Accounts

Chapter 5: A Quick Review

Chapter 6: The Evidence

Chapter 7: The Authenticity Of The Gospels

Chapter 8: Do This

Chapter 9: The Line In The Sandconclusion

Conclusion

About The Author

INTRODUCTION

No. I am not a convert or a revert. I was born Catholic, raised Catholic, educated Catholic, and never stopped being Catholic. I never had a faith crisis. I never doubted. I never fell away. And if I ever questioned, those questions were directed at religious educators who I believed strayed from what I knew inside to be the true teaching and practice of the Catholic faith.

However, my challenge as I grew older was that I didn't know how to explain on the outside what I knew on the inside. The challenge grew particularly acute when in the mid 1980's, I found myself in business with a group of evangelicals who