Welcome back to Seamus Popery. I'm Joe Heschmire, and one of the questions that I get a lot from people is,

when do I know that it's time to become a Catholic? It's not always worded that way, but you kind of know what I'm talking about, I think. Maybe you're a Protestant who watches videos like these, and you think, wow, I've never heard this before about one after another issue. and you find one after another of your objections to Catholicism falling away.

Or maybe you're a non-Christian and you find one after another of your objections to Catholicism falling away.

Or maybe you're a non-Christian, and you're starting to wonder, what do I make of the person

of Jesus of Nazareth? All of this can be enormously stressful. It might mean hard conversations

with loved ones, or it might mean people judging you. I've talked to Protestant pastors

who realized God was calling

them to become Catholic, even though it meant resigning their jobs, losing their livelihood,

giving up their house in some cases, and everything they kind of knew. So I realize this is not

a question that people take lightly, nor is it a question I think people ought to take lightly.

This is an important moment. And it's one that I think we can get wrong sometimes.

So I want to look at a couple ways not to move forward, and then see if we can't find a spiritually and biblically sound way to answer this problem.

Now, in doing that, I want to look at this in two parts. I'm

going to take maybe a unique approach to it. Because in asking the question, when should I

become Catholic? I want to first ask the question, when should I become Christian? Now, I know

many of you watching this already are Christian. But I think as we think about how would we answer this question,

it'll help us to answer the first question.

How should I be, when should I become Catholic?

And maybe in answering the when should I become Christian question,

you can see some errors that have crept into your own thinking.

I think you'll see the connection by the end.

But maybe a little

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