Tis_Bearself
Patron
I don’t see this as being a problem in the Catholic Church. It may (or may not) be a problem for some non-Catholic groups. I think prayer at some point got identified with morally questionable televangelists who, being from Evangelical or Pentecostal backgrounds, would tend to pray openly. In the Catholic Church, the biggest example of “praying openly” tends to be the Right to Life movement, and those who object are usually objecting on sociopolitical grounds, such as the prayer is making the women unable to access the clinic, or ashamed of being at the clinic, or the ever-popular accusation that we pray and don’t offer concrete help, which as we’ve been over 1000 times on here is wrong.
If anything, Catholics are usually accused of hiding their prayers and good works too well and in so doing, failing to evangelize others or acting ashamed of their faith. Not “praying to make ourselves look good.”