Editing Rich Mullins (section)

=== Roman Catholicism===
Mullins's interest in the life of Saint Francis of Assisi led to an attraction to Roman Catholicism in his final years. There was no daily Protestant service on his area of the Navajo reservation, so Mullins frequently attended daily Mass. The night before his accident, Mullins spoke to his spiritual director, Fr. Matt McGuinness, on the phone and made arrangements to formally enter the Catholic Church that weekend. He stated "This may sound strange, but I need to receive the Body and Blood of Christ."<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=5876 |title = Catholic World News : Christian Singer Rich Mullins Dies; Planned To Become Catholic |publisher = Cwnews.com |date = September 22, 1997 |access-date = October 31, 2012 |archive-date = July 1, 2016 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160701220552/http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=5876 |url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = http://tmatt.gospelcom.net/column/1998/05/06/ |title = Rich Mullins, Enigmatic, restless, Catholic |work = gospelcom.net |access-date = June 1, 2016 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://archive.today/20020618221716/http://tmatt.gospelcom.net/column/1998/05/06/ |archive-date = June 18, 2002 |df = mdy-all }}</ref><ref>An Arrow Pointing to Heaven, James Bryan Smith, pp53-54{{Dead link|date=October 2015}}</ref>

In 1997 Mullins declared,

{{blockquote|quote=A lot of the stuff which I thought was so different between Protestants and Catholics [was] not, but at the end of going through an RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults) course, I also realized that there are some real and significant differences. I'm not sure which side of the issues I come down on. My openness to Catholicism was very scary to me because, when you grow up in a church where they don't even put up a cross, many things were foreign to me. I went to an older Protestant gentleman that I've respected for years and years, and I asked him, "When does faithfulness to Jesus call us to lay aside our biases and when does it call us to stand beside them?" His answer to me was that it is not about being Catholic or Protestant. It is about being faithful to Jesus. The issue is not about which church you go to, it is about following Jesus where He leads you. “If God leads you to the Catholic Church, follow Him. So, the last couple of years now, I have been in Limbo about the whole thing. For me, it all comes down to the Eucharist. Is it really Jesus and is He present there? I think, after some pretty honest searching, I’ve come to a few dead ends that I am not going to be able to bridge by getting more information. It will just require a little more faith on my part, and it is not there yet.”<ref>Radio interview with Artie Terry, "The Exchange," WETN, Wheaton, Ill., April 1997, quoted in An Arrow Pointing to Heaven, James Bryan Smith, p54</ref>}}