Why a Megachurch Protestant Returned to the Catholic Church 

Thank you for expressing so eloquently what I have concluded after a lifetime of Protestantism. I recently converted to Catholicism and believe with my whole heart the it is the one true Church as Christ planned and appointed Peter to lead.

I was raised as a Jehovah's Witness and the Lord led me through a great deal of difficulty and I arrived, in my quest for truth only by God, to the one Church I was taught to hate. I am a grateful Catholic today by God alone.

Very informative and explained in great detail. I’m an ex Muslim, my journey into the Catholic faith has been very interesting and exciting. After I left the Islamic fold, I found out I was baptized as an infant into the Catholic Church ⛪️ and that brought tears of Joy to my eyes because it was there that I knew without any hesitation that God was in control of my Spiritual path. Thank you very much for clarifying a few questions I had.

What a beautiful testimony! I was a cradle Catholic until three years ago. I was so lost. I started my journey back to the church attending RCIA meetings...just to listen because I have all my Sacraments. It was the best decision I made. I learned how beautiful pur Catholic religion is. It has been a hard journey back because the world brainwashed me in so many areas, but i am so happy to be back home. God bless you all! Please pray for me🙏🏼

I left my senior year of high school. The heady days of smarmy guitar masses, 1971. Returned 48 years later after detouring into evangelicalism. I feel privileged and grateful that Jesus and Our Lady led me home.

Someone pointed out to me about a week ago, that Protestant churches have altar calls, but there's NO altar! I thought, WOW, how did I miss that! 🤔

Cradle Catholic here. Was away 30 years. Came back home. My testimony is seriously so much like your own. I might have a few side trips that would be different, but I know the truth, and it set me free. God reached into my life in a supernatural way and saved me from spiritual captivity. It cost me everything in my life when I chose to obey the call of Jesus to return to the Catholic Church.. Though very agonizing, for my heart , it has brought fruitfulness to others.His peace does surpass all my understanding .It is encouraging to hear that God has others like myself who chose to do the work of endless hours of reading, seeking and praying, then finding the answer is ...Jesus has a Church, and the gates of hades will not be able to keep it untriumphant! Every knee shall bow one day! Thank God for his mercy! ❤🙏I am so happy for you! 😊

I recently reverted back to the Catholic Church.. actually lost a girlfriend because of it. When I would go to the Non Denomination church, like you I felt the presence of the holy spirit but was lacking something. 30min Christian rock concert, then asking God to give me stuff. Always felt odd. I had my first men's group this morning TMIY and have been going to Holy Mass. I feel at peace. This has been a yr long journey for me..

Bless you for your testimony! I’m so happy to have been able to come across this video! My husband is Protestant and has been on a journey with me (cradle Catholic, now on total fire for the faith!!) the past 4 years! I’ll definitely ask him to watch this! Let us pray for all those who are being led to the Catholic Church, the true fullness of the faith!

I was a convert from protestant denominations. I went to mass after 30 years of no church. I was a spiritual, not religious guy. But once i went to mass, i loved it and never quit going.

I dont know! But it was just a few weeks ago that i explained to my eldest daughter (who was about to skip our daily 6pm Rosary for an online bible study of born again christian) that she is just joining a "man-made religion". I asked her who is the founder of the sect, and she immediately gave me a name. I asked her if she know who's the founder of Catholic, she doesn't know and threw the question back to me. I was about to answer madly with full parental authority, but my mouth calmly and softly said- " i can't, for our religion the Catholic faith is never founded by a mortal man but goes back to the lineage of Jesus' disciples." From then on she never ask to excuses herself from praying the Holy Rosary.

Church shopping. Been there. The "reformation " made it possible for me to shop for a church that fit MY wants. I've been hit on the head with hands that pushed me to fall and faint( holy spirit) 🙄, had people lay their hands over me at another fun , music filled event, and ate cookies and kool-aide at a Baptist church. There were more but i realize something today. After all i went through, .God never intended for us to use faith as a sodapop machine, insert money snd pick a flavor. After running around like a fiool for so long God brought me back to HIS CHURCH. The Catholic Church. My life is His , i will forever do His Will. Today i study and read 📚 everything there is to know about my faith. Thanks be to God. 🙏

I attended Catholic school from first grade through junior year of college. After that, I drifted away for decades. It has only been about four months now that, at age 57, I am beginning to return and return full force. Your video and other conversion and reversion stories like this have truly helped!

Found you channel and love it! I'm a catholic revert had everything and almost lost everything. My wife converted being staunch methodist/Wesleyan. I came back 4 years ago after seeing myself in hell....came back and now I'm living my life for christ.

Welcome back home brother. I recently came back after 22 years away. Never felt more complete in my entire life. It was the missing piece I thought I no longer needed.

My conversion was a similar experience. A little different but ended the same way lol. I was received into the Church a few years ago now. I realized that true worship requires a sacrifice and that while protestant, I wasn’t actually worshipping the Lord by listening to a band and a man’s sermon and praying. True worship is to offer a sacrifice and we do that every Holy Mass by offering the Body & Blood of Jesus Christ. What drew me into the Church was my desire to have Christ dwell in me physically and spiritually-to be able to receive the Eucharist. I had many nights experiencing spiritual warfare during the 8 months of RCIA. The devil did not want me to convert. I’m so grateful I persevered. I am so thankful for the gift of confession. It truly is a sacrament in which I feel renewed body and soul. I know Protestants will say we can ask the Lord to forgive us personally, however He said to confess our sins to one another. And hearing myself say my sins to the priest really is humbling and really puts into perspective my sins. It also helps me to not want to commit the same ones over and over again. I realize my patterns of sin and the process is a constant conversion and helps my path to be changed to be more Christ like. I could go on and on but I’m just to thankful to be part of the Church that Jesus started and the Church in which Jesus is present everyday physically and to be united with Him is such a blessing. God bless and protect those on their conversion journey. Lord guide them to the truth, in Jesus name, Amen. 🙏

I am a revert too! I just keep on thinking, I just want to continue what I promised Jesus during Confirmation.

Thank you! I grew up Protestant, and I am being confirmed in a couple weeks. We just had an RCIA session about church history and this really helped me marry the two understandings! ❤

Thank you Edie! I am a cradle Catholic who turned away from God, then found Him but started going to a non orthodox Methodist church. I was at home but constantly struggled with the division in the Christian community. Your testimony is my testimony to a point! I had trouble reading the bible and always went online to guys like Mike Winger, John McCarther, Paul Washer, R C Sproul, Voddie, CS Lewis etc and they all had different teachings and interpretations but were consistent in 1 belief.....their dislike of the Catholic church. I stayed away from anything to do with the Catholic church because the church was "satanic" as is the view out there. The confusion got so overwhelming that I begged God to reveal the truth to me. I had decided to quit youtube and just read my bible when something in me told me to research the Catholic church. It really took a leap of faith to go against my reformed beliefs but it was this same feeling that told me to research about yogic meditations, when my practice was deepening, and why I then became Christian after realising it was satanic. I started to research about the Catholic church through Catholic apologists and reformed Christians who converted. IT IS MIND BLOWING: 1. How could we be so blind to see all these churches were man made. Started by egoists who thought they could do better than Jesus 2. The number of people who have been deceived is outstanding. These preachers are going to have a lot to account for. We need to pray for them that their eyes may be open and that they repent before it is too late. 3. Matthew 7:21-23 breaks my heart! 4. We have a big task of praying for all those souls in purgatory. I cannot help but feeling this overwhelming responsibility to pray for as many souls as we possibly can. We took the 1st step toward Christ now the work begins. It hit me after mass today when the Priest said go in Faith to love and serve the LORD. This was the 1st time I ever understood what those words meant. We need to do God's work in saving souls both here and in purgatory. We cannot be silent or lukewarm in our faith. I thank God for the journey He put me through because I could have been one of those lost souls. My experiences have allowed me to understand the urgency of the mission. God bless you Edie for your much needed ministry. Your videoes strengthened my resolve when I got back to church on 13 June 2021, had my first confession after a couple of decades and received communion. God is AMAZING! I have not felt this way before. My faith has strengthened to 100% for the 1st time in my life. I am experiencing God in such profound ways. I won't even go into how my love for and understanding of Mary has developed...this post was meant to be a couple of sentences 😂.

Always proud and grateful to be a Catholic. Everytime I encounter an insult from a non Catholic I just remember what my late priest told me. Whatever the Protestant church have, we Catholic also have but what the Catholic church have the Protestant church dont have... and that is the Eucharist.

3 years ago you posted this and I just saw it❤ this coming Easter Vigil I will be 3 years a Catholic after converting from evangelical Protestantism but as I found out in RCIA? I always was Catholic because I found out I was baptized Catholic but not raised that way. I was always searching for God. Studied with Jehovahs, Mormons, Congregationalists, Baptists, Bible speaks cult now called Greater Grace World Outreach, Evangelical Free Church and landed with Assemblies of God, but none of them could ever answer my one question. “If there is only one God, One Son of God, One Word of God how can there be so many different religions” one day a woman at work gave me Scott Hahn’s book Rome Sweet, Home and I was hungry for more! and my husband asked me what are you doing? You’ve been talking a lot about Catholics lately, I hope you don’t want to be one! And my now ex friend at my old church said Catholics are unbiblical (she’s now a pastor) so I told her how can that be when the Catholics gave us the Bible! So one night at a home growth group I stood up and said I can no longer be a part of this NewDay Church (it used to meet at the BasketBall Hall of Fame) because if the world hates Catholicism this much? That must be Jesus’ church and I’m going to be with Him! When I walked into my Parish for the first time in 2020?, I fell to my knees in tears when I saw the Altar and realized I was seeing the Church that I read about in the Bible for 30 years❤ my story is long and crazy and that’s as shortcut of a version I can do for a comment.

I'm a Filipino millenial too. I was raised Catholic but in college went to an Evangelical Protestant group (Born Again "Christian" movement) because it looks cool and the people are cool BUT reverted to Catholicism because I realized that I was too very ignorant about Catholicism when I was hanging out with the melodramatic Born Again peers and their "liturgy" is so cheesy for me.

What a beautiful witness. Your story was not a bunch of drama, so sincere. Very inspiring.

A wonderful testimony. This young man took the time to research all Protestant denominations and went back to the early church . That is where you find the truth that Christ gave us. God bless you.

One of the best testimonials I have heard. Every Catholic considering or even just imagining they want to leave the RCC shld listen to yr testimonial. Thk you & God bless for this excellent work.

This experience is amazing, the Holy Spirit is speaking to me through you, I'm understanding every word even though I don't know the scriptures and have not done the research like you, the love of GOD gives me the wisdom to understand what you are saying, it's like I knew this already. I'm experiencing something happening wonderful in my heart. All the Glory be to GOD. Thank you mother Mary for all the love you give to your son 's conversion and testimony.

“What are you returning to and how do you know you have reached a satisfactory reform?” THAT is an excellent question-posed perfectly.

Welcome back brother. I know heaven is rejoicing for you. God bless you more

Ever notice how the media loves to talk about statistics about how many young people are leaving their faith but they never talk about those that come back later in life after they experience life and mature. I think something is happening in the faith now that is seeing people embrace the faith- reverts and those that were never Catholic; something is happening by way of the Holy Spirit.

This is my second time to watch this video. So well said! So well explained ! I feel your strong conviction. Thank Lord for calling you home.

This was wonderful. I've watched some of your other videos, you are so charitable with your guests' time and letting them tell their story without interruption. It's great to hear about YOU! God bless 🙏

Excellent story. Phenomenal critical thinking. I grew up Catholic. And I’ve learned more about the Catholic Church and religious history on RU-vid than any Catechism or Catholic school or any church mass growing up. I think that says something

St. Augustine said. In Essentials, we must have Unity. In non-Essentials, we have liberty. And, in all things, charity.

Welcome home to Catholic church. I am Catholic and I always be Catholic until I die!

What a wonderful conversion story. Welcome home brother.

Your conversion is so thoughtfully expressed… I plan to share this with my husband, since I could never explain it nearly as well.. it’s SO spot on. I’m so grateful I found your channel (best to you from an ex Reformed theology/Calvinist convert to the most holy and beautiful and entirely true Catholic Church in 2020).

Very Inspiring Praying For Members Of Our Family To Return To The Catholic Church In Jesus Christ We Trust In You Amen JMJ

Superb! What a blessing. 5 days ago I discovered I am a Catholic. Like you, I studied the history, dealt with intense emotions over Protestant Confusion, and quickly confirmed The Church is Roman Catholic. Peace and Calm I have never known. I went to my local parish's mass last night and am going tomorrow morning. Pray that I can figure out what to do next. I am not baptized. Peace and then more peace. God Bless you.

Very good presentation! As a fellow revert, it was the authority issue that brought me home as well

You so thoroughly explained so much about the Protestants vs Catholism. Very sadly, most won't do the work you did to find your way back. That's why your testimony and others with reversion stories are very important. Thank you so much! Keep sharing, reaching and teaching others. God bless the seeds of Faith you'll plant. 🙏🤲🙏💝

Our God was with you when you were baptized as an infant and He led you back to where you belong. God bless you and your family always !

Thank you for sharing Eddie. I am living a very similar conversion story as we speak. Confessing sin especially long standing sin is not easy, but it's a powerful way back to God. The fact that I am so intellectually curious like you are is why I'm also being drawn to Rome. Very exciting but overwhelming time of my life

I was listening to one of our Anglican bishops talk about his faith journey. He was raised in the church, was an altar boy and sang in the choir. It was when he was in college that he left the church and found himself in an evangelical church. After many years in an evangelical church where he said that he “heard the gospel”, he found his way back into the Anglican church, and is now a bishop. I was chatting with him after his talk, and said to him “how could you have not heard the gospel in the liturgy?”. He said that it required the scales “falling off his eyes“ to see the truth in the gospel and the life-giving liturgy in the church. Thanks be to God!

Thanks for your videos. It strength my catholic faith. Greet from Indonesia🙏

I am so glad to have come across this video! Thank you for sharing. I was raised Catholic but stopped attending Mass when I was married, as my husband was not Catholic. So much regret on my part, hurt my parents etc...11 years later because of my oldest son, I came back to the Church. It hasn't been easy, but we had our marriage con-validated and my husband came into the Church in 2011, we will be married 58 years this May. We only dated for 6 weeks before we were married. God is so good, kind understanding, gentle, Forgiving and welcoming and so Loving!! I'm so happy to hear all these Converts and Reverts!! Makes my heart so happy!!❤

Brilliant testimony especially when you mentioned that Martin Luther used the sin of few catholic people trying to destroy the teachings authority of the church

Excellent talk...thank you 🙏

Obviously there some differences but your journey reminds me so much of mine. Thank you for sharing

Wow! This video was on point. Thank you for the breakdown. It was so right. Exactly what I've been telling myself! What gives these other religion makers the right to change what's been taught for over 2000 years. Worse of all people would follow them. I will be sharing this video often. Thank you again...🙏👍❤️

Thank you, from New Zealand 🇳🇿🙏📿🌹

Wow! I almost didn’t watch this. Thank God that I did. Thank you for putting this up. 👍

Wow!! What an awesome testimony I will share it with lots of family members who have fallen away in a horse so confused you really explained it well thank you and God continue to bless you and yours always✝️🙏🏼

Wow. What a beautiful journey. Thank you for sharing your insights.

Love your testimony.... thank you for sharing. God bless you!

Great testimony!! Love Patrick Madrid too! Peace!!!

Welcome home! God bless🙏

Great video. Wish I had friends like you to hang out with cause no one i know is remotely interested in questioning the origins of our Protestant faith.

Amen Brother. Welcome back. You point to so much that my mind struggles with,,they keep protesting the church or each other. Not agreeing on anything. When in Christ we have to agree and trust in Him. Alone, through His Church.

I would also like to add this. When our protestant brethren state *bible alone* or that their authority comes from *bible alone* I'd like to point out that the bible is a product of the Catholic tradition via the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Thus, if the church has no authority to proclaim dogma etc...then the bible's authority also comes into question as it was by the church's authority those books proclaimed inspired. Secondly, Christ said, when he created his church, I will send you thr Holy Spirit to guide in all truth. The idea that Christ created his church (didn't leave a bible mind you) and left us in heresy until the 1500s is preposterous.

God brought me back to the Catholic faith. When I prayed for direction and His will, He told me to take the 90 year old Polish neighbor to Mass and sit with her. I did, and fell in love with the Mass. I still tried to find loop holes out of because I had grown to believe all of the lies told over and over in our culture. I had an evangelical question me, and it caused me to dig more and God led me to answers- explanations for all those false statements made about Catholicism. And yes, He showed me it is the one true faith. Reading Rome Sweet Home was the final piece of the puzzle. I love our faith and my heart is on fire for Jesus. This is His one true church. It makes sense when you read the early church fathers, and look at the Bible in the light it was intended. I do find it amazing how few Christians know where things like the Trinity come from, let alone the Bible through the various counsels. The Book of Acts is clear- they made the decision WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, and then distributed it. It’s amazing! And it is the only church that offers true food and the true wine of Jesus’s Body, Blood, Soul & Divinity.

Beautiful message thank you 😊

hat was wonderful, Eddie, thank you.

Thank you, Jesus, for this great conversion story!

Wow, so glad I found this! Great testimony! 🙏🏻💙

Welcome home ! Now try the Traditional Catholic Latin Mass it will blow you away !!!

Inspiring story, thank you for sharing and of your great good work!

Beautiful! Thanks for sharing this personal journey back home!

Beautiful testimony!!! God has truly blessed you.

Great video

This is amazing!

Wow i love this video , we can learn a lot ! And thank you for sharing this to a lot of people for their conversions.

Excellent!!! Thank you!!! Greetings from Brazil!!!

That was beautiful. I especially like what you said about glasses of grace and how you were able to see the path to becoming conformed to Christ.

Welcome back!

I was just thinking I would like to hear your story. And then this popped up🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

I, too, was away from the church for many years, and during that time, I did so many things that I regret ! My extreme joy and peace is knowing that I am receiving the Lord every day in THE church that He started. Welcome Home!

Absolutely beautiful testimony, thank you!!!❤

Welcome back Mr. Prodigal! It took an experience with the devil to bring me back

Amazing testimony. Thank you.

Well put. Thank you for this.

Thank you for this video❤

Your approach to inquiry is spot on, and you asked all the right questions. I am just at the beginning stages of conversion; not yet in RCIA. 🙏🏻✨

Thank you - this sounds so much like my journey, so I appreciate your analysis. God bless !

Thank you for sharing your story.

Thank-you for joining the way many of us have gone. you're finally home.

I wish that so many, many pastors, Protestant ministers, should discover the truth. But they do not have the courage and humility... Once upon a time they never knew Christmas, Easter, palm Sunday etc. now they are copying Catholic Liturgy... but however, gradually they are nearing, perhaps they feel empty in their services. Praying for them. Thank you for your sharing it's inspiring 👌

Wow - this video is powerful and clear - one of the best expositions of “Why Catholic” that I’ve ever seen or heard. Christ yearns for us all to draw closer to Him and the Father - and He gives us this gospel that envelopes us in the fullness of beauty, the fullness of love, and the fullness mercy… in His Church. We share in His LIFE by grace in His Holy Church, together with all the angels and saints. What a gift!

Very good presentation.

You touched on something that really struck me a long time ago. I found it odd that the liturgies and the concept of worship are very similar in the Catholic, Coptic, and Eastern Orthodox churches. I don't even know the language of their liturgies, but I would wager that I'd have a good idea of what's going on.

Thank you for that clear, beautiful testimony. I was a faithful follower of Christ in the Protestant church for most of my life. We raised our children who also love Jesus. My two daughters converted to Catholicism after looking at the history of the church. I couldn’t understand, at the time, why they would choose Catholicism. That challenged me to study and pray, which took me on a journey I never expected. At one point I told God I would never become Catholic. Here I am three years in and I know that I’m finally home. Thanks be to God.

Thank you for this video . I thought I was alone going back to chatholism . I realized Catholics are the most persecuted Christianity by other Christian denomination. Your journey back is so similar to mine . God blessed you

That was great. Thank you.

Great summary of the whole picture!

Thanks for explaining this in such plain and simple and a humble way. You have honestly madè it so simple for ordinary Catholics and even non Catholics to understand without having a complicated laborious explanation. I appreciate it. 🙏🏽

Thank you for your story and for starting this channel. I am a cradle Catholic who has learned to appreciate my faith so much more by listening to the stories of people who have found our Catholic faith by various ways. I also thought your book was very good and that it took a lot of courage and grace to write it! Thanks be to God for all He is doing through you!

Thank you, that was wonderful. God bless.

Thank you, brother! Amazing work. I can strongly relate to your journey of wanting to know the truth, and painstakingly seeking it out (and finding it). Thank you for sharing and God bless you!

Wow, perfect. Thank you so much 💛☦🕊

Outstanding video!! Thank you! When I was a Protestant for my whole life I always was church hopping every few years. Then in 2008 I stopped working to take care of my ill father at home. One day the Mormons came to our door and we let them in... they started coming over often and we liked these two young men very much. I would make breakfast for them sometimes and we would have discussions with them that were interesting. One day they said the priesthood had been lost in the dark ages and needed to be restored. They said God restored it through Joseph Smith. After they left I thought about that and said to myself, "Thats something I never considered in all my years in searching for the truth" of which was very important to me, TRUTH. I then thought, "If that is true then where was the priesthood, and if its not true, then where is the priesthood?" I thought, "I think the Catholics say they have the priesthood" I then said to my dad, "Dad, lets go down to the Catholic church on Sunday, I just was to see" So we did... As soon as I entered the church I felt something I had never felt before in any other church! I felt a Holiness surrounding me, and a peaceful reverence I had never felt before! I could not deny they holiness! At the end of the Mass i turned to my dad and said, "Dad, I want to become Catholic" He said he wanted to too! I then entered RCIA, my dad went to confession since he had beed raised Catholic and had beed gone away from it for 50 years when he married a Protestant. The priest we walked up to was ecstatic we we walked up to him at the end of Mass and asked him "Father how do we become Cathlic"

WOW, WOW, WOW. ABSOLUTELY AMAZING VIDEO.