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How do you become Catholic?

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15y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

You have to be baptized. Adults usually must go through a term of catechesis, or instruction that they might learn the basic truths of the faith. This is not merely for the catechumen, it is also the Church's responsibility that the person desiring baptism is making an informed choice, so that after baptism there are no doctrinal surprises that might cause the new Catholic to become an apostate and thereby make their spiritual situation worse than before they were baptized.

An adult desiring to convert to Catholicism needs only to get in touch with a local priest or parish. Usually, catechumens are baptized at Easter, but this may depend when the catechumen begins instruction. If the catechumen once espoused beliefs considered heretical by the Church and taught such beliefs in some official capacity, a public recantation (nowadays its usually "public" in the sense of being done in front of the priest) may be advised before baptism.

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