But St Violet was talking about anti-catholic PROTESTANTS in that response that I quoted. People may be anti-catholic but it’s not always protestants that are the culprits. Even you stated that you have no idea what religious affiliation the perps were.
I just try to let it roll of the back and move on.This is exactly why the infallibility of the Pope is so much more reliable than the protestants’ supposed “infallibility” of privately-interpreted scripture. The Pope is a living person, and if we don’t understand what he meant we can ask him and he will tell us. Which is exactly what Pius IX did.
My point was that anti-Catholicism exists, and you don’t have to go looking for it. You seemed to imply earlier that Catholics mistake Protestant disagreement as anti-Catholicism–at least that’s how I took your comment, “I guess it is just what you are looking for is what you find.” Sorry if I misunderstood.But St Violet was talking about anti-catholic PROTESTANTS in that response that I quoted. People may be anti-catholic but it’s not always protestants that are the culprits. Even you stated that you have no idea what religious affiliation the perps were.
Anti-protestantism exists also. I have been told many shocking things that don’t seem to coincide with the cathoic catechism.
First, welcome to the forums!
That’s a very good question. I’d say it comes from two places: first, our sinful nature, and we all (Catholics, Protestants, Buddhists, everybody) have a tendency toward sin. It’s a daily battle, and we often fail. But we seek repentence and try to improve.
no… I don’t go out looking for anti-catholic protestants. Most protestants would ask me if I am a christian and then ask me which church I go to, when I give them the answer to their second question then they realize I am indeed a Catholic and this is when I run into the anti catholocism, there have been times protestants would spew non sense with the intent to degrade the Catholic Church without me mentioning I am catholic, I usually just nod and politely smile, there also have been countless times when I am over hearing protestants and their anti catholocism conversation, with this I usualy politely smile as well.Funny, I hail from Washington also and I find just the opposite… I have never run into anti-catholic protestants… I guess it is just what you are looking for is what you find.
What we need to do is stop being ‘tolerant’ and try being understanding and accepting. Anti-whatever isn’t going to stop until you try to see WHY they are the way they are. When I come up to anti-protestantism I try to look at it as if they are so passionate about their Faith and they love me so much, that they can’t help but incessently spout lies and assumptions about my Faith.
That person may just shut up and it can open a dialogue to understanding rather than the usual polite smile and distaste for protestants. Which is quite obvious by the way.
Contrary to an earlier post which indicates Washington state is a breeding ground for anti-catholics, I have actually not run into it much up here…
We call it the CAT syndrome in my house. Did you ever notice that a cat will run away from cat lovers that want to pet it, but then they will go jump into the lap of the closest cat hater?I have never had anyone ask me my faith. My husband always gets those kinds of people. He is a secular humanist and thinks all religion is nuts. He is finally learning to be polite to people who try to convert him.
I love hearing about the religious beliefs of people but I am too polite to ask. I wait for them to ask me, but they never do. I never get a chance to answer the door when people come around to talk about their faith. I am always in the garden or on the phone when they come. My husband is the one who answers poor dear.
Who can tell why some of us who want to talk religion never get a chance to do so and others of us who want to avoid such discussion are forced by circumstances to do so. Very strange.
Not so strange. Most people who want to discuss religion have the overt motivation to convert people. Those who are simply curious, or whose motivation to convert is subtle and non-coercive and non-judgmental are rare. Human nature-- the tendency to believe “we are good, you are evil”. Only polite to be very cautious.
Sounds to me like the children were attending a Non-Denominational school, which is in fact, NOT non-denominational. It’s it’s own branch of Protestantism. This is one of those groups that grasped on the term ‘Christian’, as a pseudonym for ‘Non-Catholic Christian’.
Hmn–since I started attending daily Mass, just recently, I can identify that as one of my flaws.
Whoa! Look again! Anti-Catholicism was part and parcel of the Protestant vision of America as the New Kingdom of God. I don’t usually cite Wiki (for obvious reasons) but scroll down to the section on the United States for a quick look.
Well, during the Irish immigration period, much of it was not so much the Irish were Catholic as much as they were immigrants. We still struggle with welcoming immigrants today.
The “wall” that came down in the 1960s was the idea that a Catholic could promote non-Catholic views and still be Catholic. This was a bit of prestidigitation engineered by the Fr. Robert Drinan, who served for 10 years in Congress and mentored some of the outstanding proponents of the position still in power: Ted, Nancy, Kerry et al.
