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rosarygirl11
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Hi. Okay I really need some help. This is partly un-weaving some family mysteries and partly setting the record straight on lies about the RC Church. This is going to be long so bare with me…
Okay. So I have a very anti-Catholic mother-in-law. She is also very dishonest so it is hard to decipher heads from tails on what she says. She grew up in Italy (so did most of my family, but not me). She is a member of the church of Christ (you know the type, non-denominational denomination, founded 33AD doncha’ know!) Anyways – she claims that when she lived in Italy (1950’s – 1970’s until she moved here) she was persecuted for not being Catholic. I don’t just mean socially (which I would buy) – I mean legally. She claims the police arrested her family and other church members, drowned people and that they had to meet in secret at night in the dark. OH, and it was illegal to have the bible. From what I understand, the Italian constitution (since the 1940’s at least) has provisions for freedom of religion pretty much like we have here in the U.S. Basically, I think her story is bull. Does anyone out there have any experience of living in Italy at this time that can confirm or deny that this could have actually happened? It seems like she is just taking common fallacies about the medieval church and attributing them to her life.
The complication is that her father whom she idolizes even though he is dead, and who she considers the model Christian molested, raped, physically and mentally abused her. As a result she has what most of us in the family believe to be borderline personality disorder. She is basically still romantically in love with her dead father (I know it sounds sick). She exposed her daughter to this child molester and even planned to have him come here from Italy to live with her BUT he died before that could happen (aww, shucks, right?). He was apparently an elder in this ‘church’ that they attended. No reason has ever been given for why he was ex-communicated to begin with. She claims she was excommunicated as a kid, but we all know the church doesn’t excommunicate children.
The idea that she worshipped in secret and her family was arrested is weird to me. Almost makes me think they were involved in something bad and her father just lied and used the Catholic Church as a scapegoat for his actions. She would rather vilify the church than admit her father is a scum bag. She is also the type that constantly forwards things on that are found on Snopes easily and hoaxes but she buys into the hysteria without even thinking. She is child like in a lot of ways. So, I can see how she may have latched on to her father’s lies from an early age and clung to them.
SO I ASK, does anyone know if any of this could have really happened to her and her family by the Catholic Church?
And secondly is anyone familiar with any groups either church of Christ or otherwise that were in Milano in the 1950’s – 1960’s that had a sinister underbelly? If you have any info that involves family names you can PM me.
Oh, and both she and her older sister came to America as sort of “mail order brides” which makes me suspicious of why they couldn’t just marry someone in Italy. Her brother married an Italian woman and raised his kids Catholic – so obviously he did not hold these biases, so I wonder if only the girls were sexually exploited and made a part of this bizarre thing that was going on.
Okay. So I have a very anti-Catholic mother-in-law. She is also very dishonest so it is hard to decipher heads from tails on what she says. She grew up in Italy (so did most of my family, but not me). She is a member of the church of Christ (you know the type, non-denominational denomination, founded 33AD doncha’ know!) Anyways – she claims that when she lived in Italy (1950’s – 1970’s until she moved here) she was persecuted for not being Catholic. I don’t just mean socially (which I would buy) – I mean legally. She claims the police arrested her family and other church members, drowned people and that they had to meet in secret at night in the dark. OH, and it was illegal to have the bible. From what I understand, the Italian constitution (since the 1940’s at least) has provisions for freedom of religion pretty much like we have here in the U.S. Basically, I think her story is bull. Does anyone out there have any experience of living in Italy at this time that can confirm or deny that this could have actually happened? It seems like she is just taking common fallacies about the medieval church and attributing them to her life.
The complication is that her father whom she idolizes even though he is dead, and who she considers the model Christian molested, raped, physically and mentally abused her. As a result she has what most of us in the family believe to be borderline personality disorder. She is basically still romantically in love with her dead father (I know it sounds sick). She exposed her daughter to this child molester and even planned to have him come here from Italy to live with her BUT he died before that could happen (aww, shucks, right?). He was apparently an elder in this ‘church’ that they attended. No reason has ever been given for why he was ex-communicated to begin with. She claims she was excommunicated as a kid, but we all know the church doesn’t excommunicate children.
The idea that she worshipped in secret and her family was arrested is weird to me. Almost makes me think they were involved in something bad and her father just lied and used the Catholic Church as a scapegoat for his actions. She would rather vilify the church than admit her father is a scum bag. She is also the type that constantly forwards things on that are found on Snopes easily and hoaxes but she buys into the hysteria without even thinking. She is child like in a lot of ways. So, I can see how she may have latched on to her father’s lies from an early age and clung to them.
SO I ASK, does anyone know if any of this could have really happened to her and her family by the Catholic Church?
And secondly is anyone familiar with any groups either church of Christ or otherwise that were in Milano in the 1950’s – 1960’s that had a sinister underbelly? If you have any info that involves family names you can PM me.
Oh, and both she and her older sister came to America as sort of “mail order brides” which makes me suspicious of why they couldn’t just marry someone in Italy. Her brother married an Italian woman and raised his kids Catholic – so obviously he did not hold these biases, so I wonder if only the girls were sexually exploited and made a part of this bizarre thing that was going on.