Christian Book Stores

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Brother_John said:
Geneva Road was the second house I referred to. Also had a really cool automobile seat/dash/steering wheel thing in the basement. Dwight always had a thing for Renaults.

I did go to school with Lucy. Brothers Danny and Franky, sister MaryLou.
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Reason I asked was because my best friend’s mother, Gloria Ford was Lucy’s 4th or 5th grade teacher out at Prince Crossing.
 
khutcheson said:
Reason I asked was because my best friend’s mother, Gloria Ford was Lucy’s 4th or 5th grade teacher out at Prince Crossing.
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Seems like I went to school with Lucy for one year at Indian Knoll, maybe not. We played a lot of baseball in the Fernandes back yard.
 
Jeanette_L said:
I think what you have to come to terms with is the fact that Protestant/Evangelical/Fundamentalists don’t consider Catholics Christians - at all - so they wouldn’t even think of having Catholic resources in their “Christian” stores.

Since I have become Catholic I am finding it amazing that most Catholics are completely unaware of this fact. I am no longer considered a Christian by my family since becoming Catholic. 🤷 It’s why Catholics are targeted and in startling numbers lured away from the Church. Ignorance is not bliss - on either side. 😦

So, when you get that “frosty” vibe, it’s because you are considered not much better to them than a Satan worshipper - just take a look at Chick garbage portraying itself as truth in literature and you will be awakened in no time to what is going through their minds when you come into their stores. You are obviously there to bring some kind of evil spirit upon them. You were probably being rebuked under their breath. :eek:

Forgive me if I sound like I am overgeneralizing, but having come from there, I know how far and wide this attitude prevails. It’s very sad. 😦
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This is an excellent point. Without rehashing my whole story. I’m a Catholic revert, raised a Catholic and was without a clue… When my spirituality was revived it was in a “seeker friendly”, “small group”, Bible based Church. 50% of this Church was former Catholics (what I’m coming to find out are cultural Catholic, which I was one).

Anyway, in these small groups people made statements such as
  • Catholics are not saved
  • Catholics worship idols (saints and Mary)
  • Catholics believe they are saved by works, idolatry
  • Catholics use a different, non-Christian, Bible
Researching these questions (and discovering the truth) was what brought me back to Catholicism.
 
When I hear a bookstore described as Christian, I often think of Protestant not Catholic. Partly because I know that there are Protestant denominations that do not recognize Catholics as Christians.
They have since either moved or gone out of business, but I knew one religious bookstore that had both Protestant and Catholic products for sale. If I remember correctly, a Catholic gentleman that worked there was also one of the owners.
 
whizkid43 said:
This is an excellent point. Without rehashing my whole story. I’m a Catholic revert, raised a Catholic and was without a clue… When my spirituality was revived it was in a “seeker friendly”, “small group”, Bible based Church. 50% of this Church was former Catholics (what I’m coming to find out are cultural Catholic, which I was one).

Anyway, in these small groups people made statements such as
  • Catholics are not saved
  • Catholics worship idols (saints and Mary)
  • Catholics believe they are saved by works, idolatry
  • Catholics use a different, non-Christian, Bible
Researching these questions (and discovering the truth) was what brought me back to Catholicism.
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:hug3: Glad you made it back! 👍
 
I used to work at one of the largest Christian bookstore chains…is it inappropriate if I name it here?? Just saying that we carried a fairly large Catholic section, and we sold alot of those selections too.
 
PoliSciProf said:
I once went to a large Christian bookstore to look for some vacation reading. The Catholic section had a few token classics but mostly included anti-catholic material. When the clerk who was helping me look for a book realized that I must be Catholic she became visibly frosty. The experience was very unpleasant. I must also mention that I went to another (and smaller) Christian store and found it to be reasonably well-stocked with Catholic materials and a supportive staff. I purchased a new Catholic bible which they had in stock and become quite friendly with the non-Catholic owner. In fact, I arranged for a display of his Catholic material at my Church after Mass. I don’t know what to make of these two experiences except to say that glib generalizations are always suspect.
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It may be small minded on my part, but patronizing any business owned by Catholics is always my first choice. I just think it is better for the church in general. We patronize their business & they, in turn, donate tithes & offerings to the Church & to our Catholic schools as well as to other Catholic causes. It strengthens the church, our schools and even our very own families when we, as Catholics, look out for each other in this way. :grouphug:

If I have any need of any major & expensive work to be done, I call the parish office for names of people in the parish who could do it before looking in the yellow pages.

Non Catholic book stores do not always have updated Catholic material. One time, I needed a child’s gift on a short notice. I wanted to give the children a book telling how to pray the rosary. This was after Pope John Paul authorized the Luminous mysteries. None of their books included any mention of the Luminous mysteries. You have to watch for things like this in a Protestant owned store. The owners do not always keep up with changes & development of other denominations outside of their own. 🤷

When patronizing a business owned by Catholics, it is like I am actually giving to the church. It also gives an unspoken statement to the children & grandchildren. 👍 It is just a way that I can stand firm in the faith when the church is sometimes attacked with non Christian or anti Christian publicity.
 
khutcheson said:
A couple of weeks ago I was looking for something by Scott Hahn. I headed over to Santa Clara University (I think it’s a Jesuit University, know it’s Catholic). This bookstore had nothing by Scott Hahn, and seemed to have more stuff written by Evangelicals than Catholics.
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To state that that is my pet peeve, is really an understatement!
That is very disappointing to me to say the least.:mad:

You know how many Catholic parents are sacrificing to send their children to Catholic Universities in order to keep their Catholicism intact!

When I arrived on my Catholic campus in 1986, the only *moral *Christian presence I could find was the protestant group Campus Crusade for Christ. I joined. A month later I was going to Church with them, and it took 18 years for me to step back into the Catholic Church.
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**I work at a Catholic University… and am currently going through RCIA here. There is a very very strong campus ministry and I’m happy to say that it’s very active and many students are involved… they offer all sorts of programs and retreats… all which are well attended. There are probably 8 Masses scheduled around campus on Sundays… all of which seem to be attended well… the ones later in the day seem to be more crowded… 😉

However, in checking out the campus bookstore, I was dissappointed in the lack of books availabe. Maybe it’s because they assume that most everyone is already Catholic. And you know what the say about those who assume.

Luckily, there is a Catholic bookstore about 5 minutes away… but still!!!**
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coranewf said:
**I work at a Catholic University… and am currently going through RCIA here. There is a very very strong campus ministry and I’m happy to say that it’s very active and many students are involved… they offer all sorts of programs and retreats… all which are well attended. **
This is what I experienced at my Catholic university.

My University had a Campus Ministry. The Catholic kids went to Mass regularly.
But they were not chaste, and they were drunkards. 😦
I was a young adult, just out of my parents’ house, and was doing my best to live my whole life as a Christian, chaste and sober, and minding the law of the land.

What is the spiritual commitment level of the students who are active in your campus ministry? I remember one guy who I liked in my Catholic high school youth group, who was real involved in college campus ministry. He was a theology major and began to espouse a lot of agnosticism among his friends.

Those were the reasons, sadly, that I left my Catholic faith, and connected with other non-Catholic Christians on campus.
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“Christian” book store was specified, but be careful about the big book stores. They have books that are not really Christian, much less Catholic, in the section where said books should be. What’s worse, the so-called Catholic books might not be by loyal Catholics. You can’t imagine the junk there!
 
Yes, I have. But we’re so fortunate to have so many wonderful books these days through Amazon.com. So many of them have been written by Protestant Pastors who’ve discovered things in the bible, only to realize that the RC church has known these things for 2000 yrs. These pastors have shown immense courage to leave their paying pastorates to follow their new understanding of the fullness of Christianity within the RC church. Their stories are all remarkable. We also are getting the word out through the Journey Home program on EWTN, the Catholic TV channel. We have Catholic bookstores, but they frighten a lot of protestants away with their windows full of statues, etc. I’l like to see the inviting reading materials advertised better in our RC store windows.

Jane
Blessed to be Catholic
 
I am in the upper midwest and recently Northwestern Christian bookstores were taken over/bought by a chain store with no catholic material in them at all. I spoke today with a local owner of a catholic store and was told that there business has picked up since lifeway took over. But overall I am taken saddened by the division that this causes.
 
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