PROTESTANT YOUTUBE STAR ANNOUNCES
SHE’S
CONVERTING TO CATHOLICISM
By
ChurchPOP Editor – February 19, 2018
YouTube star Lizzie Estella Reezay of the YouTube
channel LizziesAnswers has announced that she’s converting from Protestantism
to Catholicism.
“I
want everyone to know that I hated that this was happening”,
she explains in a recent video. “I
fought so hard to get out of this intellectually. I did
not want to be Catholic. Not only
did I think Catholicism was wrong, I just didn’t like the vibe of
Catholicism. I wanted to be anything but
Catholic”.
She explains how hard it was for her to make her
announcement video because she knew many of her Protestant family and friends
would perceive it to be a betrayal. But,
she explains, she was obliged to become Catholic by the force of one simple
fact: it was true.
Lizzie grew up in the Protestant denomination Churches
of Christ (CoC). She started her YouTube
channel 8 years ago when she was just 16 years old and had a few videos giving
teenage relationship advice go viral.
Since the beginning, though, she wasn’t shy about also talking about her
Christian faith.
As of this writing, she has amassed a huge following,
with over +183k subscribers to her YouTube channel and over 34 million video
views.
She attended Pepperdine University (which is
affiliated with CoC), where she studied philosophy and religion, and she was
planning on moving to Thailand soon to work as a CoC missionary. But in the last year or so she also started
exploring Catholicism on her channel, with videos like “10 Lies Protestants
Believe About Catholicism! (From a
Protestant)”, “PROTESTANT VISITS LATIN MASS!
What I LOVED and HATED”, and “WHY “FAITH ALONE” SALVATION IS WRONG! (From a Protestant)”.
Then, on Ash Wednesday just a few days ago she
announced she was converting to Catholicism!
She said she would explain more in an upcoming video, which she released
a few days later.
Reading the writings of the early Church fathers was
particularly impactful for her, since she said they were so clearly Catholic. She also realized that the Catholic Church’s
teaching about the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist was more biblical
than she thought. Finally, she said she
decided to become Catholic rather than Eastern Orthodox after being convinced of
the truth of the papacy by Steve Ray’s book Upon
This Rock.
