Bill with Cardinal Christoph Schonborn
Why Catholic Is About
Why Catholic is about spreading and teaching the one true Christian faith by helping Catholics better understand their faith, recapturing fallen-away Catholics, and engaging Non-Catholics.
How it all started
Born and raised into a devout Irish/Italian-Catholic family in Queens, New York, Bill Moran, founder of Why Catholic, turned his back on his faith and led a secular life for most of his later teens and twenties. Raised with an emotionally absent father, he turned to sex, drugs, alcohol, and crime. Through his self-fathering efforts, Bill would eventually turn his life around and begin a successful business career.
While attending a business seminar, the speaker challenged the participants to think about their spiritual life and invited them to write to him for more information. Ever wanting to improve in business, Bill wrote the speaker and shortly afterward received a small tract/pamphlet on accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and personal savior. This sparked a renewed interest in his Christian past. The speaker was a “Born Again” Christian. Not understanding the many different Christian denominations at the time, he began attending Mass again.
Bill continued to read non-Catholic pamphlets and even would regularly watch non-denominational and evangelical preachers on Sundays. Conflicted over what true Christian teaching was, Bill set out on a lifelong journey of reading studying, and educating himself on the true teachings of Christianity.
Along the way, Bill developed a knack for explaining some of these teachings in a simple and easy-to-understand contemporary style that subsequently led to WhyCatholic.com. As he always says, “You do not need to be a theologian to see the truth, just some common sense. Much of what people think about Catholicism is wrong
Our Goal:
WhyCatholic seeks to inspire Catholics to understand their faith better and, as 1 Peter 3:15 says, “to be prepared to give a defense of our belief.” At the same time, WhyCatholic seeks to re-engage the hearts and minds of those who have lost their faith or joined other denominations and help them, at last, understand “Why Catholic!”