Why you should be Catholic

Why you should be Catholic: I became Catholic. From the time we started dating in 1996 and continuing after our wedding into the twenty-first century, this bull-headed Lutheran scowled and fumed and argued why we should NOT be Catholic. Even though my wife was born and raised in the Catholic Faith, I rationalized, we should become Lutheran or Episcopalian or non-denominational. We should be Christian, I reasoned, but not Catholic. My misgivings were a proud list: The exaltation of Mary and the Saints, the rigid Church hierarchy, the exclusive nature of Communion, the notion of absolution through a priest, the formality of the Mass, and on and on. I was certain of the righteousness of my cause. But to paraphrase C.S. Lewis,