Do you find Catholics a bit "strange"?

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Do you find Catholics a “bit strange?”

WHY do Catholics Do THAT?

or WHY Do Catholics Believe THAT?

or WHY do Catholics Act like that?

With charity plesse:)
 
Perhaps American Protestants found Catholics strange in a day and age where American Catholics were more traditional.

Eating fish on Fridays, Catholic school, Latin are things I can see being perceived as odd. But nowadays, are American Catholics generally really different from anyone else?

The Orthodox stand out more. They have lots of fasting days, with stricter requirements beyond mere abstention from meat, plus they generally observe major holidays on different dates.
 
Relationships with Christ, clergy and each other have to be oblique and almost never straight.
 
When I was in the conversion process my biggest hangups were on birth control (I could understand the pill since it can act as an abortafacient but couldn’t understand barrier methods being banned) and praying to the saints and to Mary. Coming from a protestant background, I found those to be the most difficult to reconcile.
 
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Christ instituted our church. He certainly was not strange. Neither are we.
 
PJM said:
Do you find Catholics a “bit strange?”

WHY do Catholics Do THAT?

or WHY Do Catholics Believe THAT?

or WHY do Catholics Act like that?

With charity plesse:)
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As a Catholic, I find the Catholic willingness to tolerate being wronged a bit strange. Heck, most people/denominations would take far less abuse and keep coming back for more.

For example, when the ‘Wymenpriests’ folks are banned from their parishes, they inevitably are welcomed and allowed the use of the nearest Episcopal, ChurchofChrist, Methodist or some other facility to pretend in their performance. Any other church would consider that aiding and abetting and send out a strongly worded letter and perhaps cut ties. Catholics, nah, just turn the other cheek over and over.
 
PJM said:
Do you find Catholics a “bit strange?”
WHY do Catholics Do THAT?
or WHY Do Catholics Believe THAT?
or WHY do Catholics Act like that?
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As a Catholic who spent her adult years in protestant denominations and non-denominations, I really didnt have any contact with Catholics except my own non-practicing Catholic family members. I did work with an ex-Catholic who bashed Catholics and non-Catholic Christians equally. Now that I am back in full communion with the Catholic Church, I do find Catholics ‘a bit strange’, on one noticeably different aspect from my non-Catholic Christian friends. Whereas my friends are heavily into the Bible, studying God’s word, I find Catholics going out of their way to avoid it. I find that strange. Isnt God’s word, God’s word? If it is one of the three legs that sustains The Church aside from the Magisterium and Tradition, why avoid it? That aspect alone is what my non-Catholic Christian friends do not understand and what makes them label Catholics as not Christian. Because they have no idea why someone calling themselves a Christian is Biblically illiterate.
 
PJM said:
Do you find Catholics a “bit strange?”

WHY do Catholics Do THAT?

or WHY Do Catholics Believe THAT?

or WHY do Catholics Act like that?

With charity plesse:)
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Why fish? I mean, come on, fish? Fish is basically a vegetable. Ban fish.
 
PJM said:
Do you find Catholics a “bit strange?”

WHY do Catholics Do THAT?

or WHY Do Catholics Believe THAT?

or WHY do Catholics Act like that?

With charity please:)
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No stranger than the rest of us. 🙂

I find Catholic funerals a bit strange and somewhat cookie-cutter and impersonal compared to what am used to, but I would imagine that Catholics would find the ones I am used to as strange in other ways. I guess it’s just a matter of what of you’ve been raised in and are accustomed to.

On the other hand, I find more I have more in common with Catholics on many issues than I do with secular liberals.
 
Iron_Donkey said:
Why fish? I mean, come on, fish? Fish is basically a vegetable. Ban fish.
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Don’t do that! The Catholic obsession with Fish Fridays is the reason I’m able to get lunch for under $4 on Fridays in the late winter and spring.
 
PJM said:
Do you find Catholics a “bit strange?”
WHY do Catholics Do THAT?
or WHY Do Catholics Believe THAT?
or WHY do Catholics Act like that?

With charity please:)
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Why do Catholics bury a statue of St. Joseph in their yard when they want to sell their house? Thanks.
 
gazelam said:
Why do Catholics bury a statue of St. Joseph in their yard when they want to sell their house? Thanks.
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Some Catholics do this because of folklore that implies one would get a better price for their home.
 
gazelam said:
Why do Catholics bury a statue of St. Joseph in their yard when they want to sell their house? Thanks.
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I"m 52 Catholic all my life, and have never heard of such a thing until I came on this website.
 
PJM said:
Do you find Catholics a “bit strange?”

WHY do Catholics Do THAT?

or WHY Do Catholics Believe THAT?

or WHY do Catholics Act like that?

With charity plesse:)
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Actually, I find many protestant communions to far stranger, at least in worship style, etc. , than I do Catholics.

JOn
 
PJM said:
Do you find Catholics a “bit strange?”

WHY do Catholics Do THAT?

or WHY Do Catholics Believe THAT?

or WHY do Catholics Act like that?

With charity plesse:)
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I would say very strange. If you are a true practicing Catholic, the more practicing you are, the stranger you will be, so much so you are practically living in an alien world.

For example, you will want to receive the Sacraments, until you will be doing / going for it on a daily basis.

You would also try to go for Confession nearly on a weekly basis.

The reason why you will be doing this is because you love or long to be in full communion with Jesus with his divine Body and Blood.

You want to always be in a state of grace, free from the burden of sin, thus you’ll be going for Confession whenever you commit sins.

Then because you are very conscious that now you are carrying Jesus within you, you would try to avoid engaging in all activities that would not make Jesus as the Number One in your life. You are practically becoming so surreal, that you are living in this world but you are not of the world anymore.

I do not know what could be stranger than that.
 
jschwartz said:
Perhaps American Protestants found Catholics strange in a day and age where American Catholics were more traditional.

Eating fish on Fridays, Catholic school, Latin are things I can see being perceived as odd. But nowadays, are American Catholics generally really different from anyone else?

The Orthodox stand out more. They have lots of fasting days, with stricter requirements beyond mere abstention from meat, plus they generally observe major holidays on different dates.
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Dear God; I HOPE & pray that we are:)

Catholicism IS Go’s truths entrusted to the RCC, [Mt 16:18-19] Guided by the HS [Mt 28:20] and it’s TRUTH’S actually warranted by Jesus Personally. [Jn 17: 17-19]

We BETTER be different:thumbsup:

God Bless you,

Patrick
 
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