I was raised as a Catholic but my parents stopped going when I was 16. At college a Christian got be going back to church but it was a Baptist church not a Catholic church; that was in 1976. He taught me how to read, study, memorize and meditate on Scripture. I maintain those habits since then and have read through the entire Bible over 46 times and have memorized over 3000 verses.
What clinched it for me was when I read through the CCC around 15 years ago. I will never leave the Catholic church again.