Does the church YOU attend talks about the Catholic Church?

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dbhost said:
Yes, the Baptist churches, and Calvary Chapel movement churches both, but Calvary more so, teach on the early history of the church.

Mind you, **the protestant church is divided out from the Catholic church out of protest **(hence the name), but church history is just that, church history. The martyrs of the faith are still the martyrs of the faith. Only the most extreme fringe congregations that can not in any shape call themselves Christian with any honesty deny the link between the Catholics, and say Baptists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Quakers, Amish, etc… We are all united in the faith and salvation through Jesus Christ.
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Actually, the term protestant has its roots in the protests at the Second Diet of Speyer in 1529, which soght to limit religious activity of the non-Catholic churches. It was a protest of a government action.

Jon
 
Patavium said:
A question for our nonCatholic friends, and former nonCatholic friends. Does the Church YOU attend spends time during the services, bible studies, and other church activities talking about the Catholic Church?
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Hi Patavium. That’s a good question (and I take it that Protestant posters think it is too, judging by all the nice responses you’ve gotten :)). I’ve never been non-Catholic, so I won’t try to answer it, but just to clarify: When you ask this question, you’re not counting saying the Creed (“I believe in … the holy catholic church”) right?
 
Hi Friends!!

I left the Catholic Church in my 20’s for about 7 years. I attended the The Dutch Reformed Church. (Its a Calvinist Church) Now, I never hear the pastor preach things at the pulpit, but in bible studies, Evangelical events they bashed Catholics. First, when they know you are coming from the Catholic Church and you have a question, they pull out the Bible and tell you where the answer is an why “Catholics are wrong”. Like others post, its not from the pulpit. Its in the Bible studies, catechism classes, and all around you with the parishioner. I will tell you, the Calvinist were born with scripture built in their brains. ( They had the Heidelberg catechism.) To understand how the Church came about, you hear the history in new member classes. There was definitely a hateful undertones about Catholics. I heard the following:“whores of Babylon”, Worship idols, do not have the correct 10 commandments, Popes liar, Traditions are not scripture, etc etc etc. Like another poster commented the pastor does nothing to stop it. He treated it like a compare and contrast, in reality, looking back, it was comparing to facts they did not even have correct regarding the Catholic Church. IT was more of the Truth according to them. They had a wrong interpretation of the Catholic Churches Traditioin, doctrine and scripture.

I noticed you could tell them until you were blue in the face the Truth about the Catholic Faith. They don’t care. They learned their “Truth” from other Calvinist, instead of looking at the Catholic Church and their documents in a whole. They take bits and pieces and interpret that. They learn from NON Catholics what the Catholics are about. Boy, you would really add fuel to the fire if you had a Catholic that hated being Catholic. They would use that person as an example of how they are “right” about the Catholic Church. Oh and that person would usually “witness’” to others how wonderful his life is now that he seen the errors of his ways…😛
 
Catholics get mentioned on occasion in my parish, but only in positive ways. We consider the RC our sister Church.
 
phatrat1982 said:
Actually this very topic is why I signed up for this forum, so I would like to get in on this discussion.

I move around a lot and as a result I am always looking for a new Church to attend, lately I have stopped going altogether as it seams I find faults with every Church I goto and then I had to take a hard look at my own life, why was I finding faults with so many Churches maybe the faults were with me.

Anyways to stay on topic, I have been to dozens, countless in fact, churches over the years and well all were protestant as far as I could tell and very few actually had anything to say on other churches in general. But I started attending a certain Baptist church a while back that appointed my dad as a deacon and so we ended up staying there for a long time because of that alone, not only did they have nothing but negative things to say about the Catholic church, they taught heavily that they alone were the last remnants of the only true church and only churches affiliated with them, non denominational independent fundamental baptist as they called it, were worthy of attending. For the most part at first I liked the church had good fellowship, lots of Bible study and so many good things, or things at the time I thought were good.

Then I started to notice things I never seen before, not only were they wrong about the saying they were the true church but I also was finding scripture after scripture that contradicted so many of their teachings. Pretty soon I felt like maybe that was not the church for me and left in disgust.

From there it has been well since 2008 since I have attended any church regularly but in reality I slowed down and started drifting around 2006. So it has been many years for me since I regularly attended a church. In fact as of right now it has been a full year since the last church service I have attended anywhere.

I was always raise mostly baptists, my mom was brought up baptist, but my dad well he was saved when I was 11 or 12 somewhere in that area, anyways he started by listening to Charles Stanley on the radio and when he was moved to find a church he went looking for one like what was described on the radio, at that time I was personally attending a four square church.

From there we shopped around as you say until we “settled” on southern baptist for a while. I never liked them for some reason, felt like they put too much emphasis on well being mean and not enough on being loving. Then we somehow, and for the life of me I can not remember how, fell into that fundamental church and it was all downhill from there.

As for why I am here, well I started going to collage in spring of 2011 and my first class was a US history class and it had been ten years since I had left high school so my history was well shady at best, so it made me question a lot of my personal views when we started reading about the early US colonies and the reformation and the like. Since then I have been on a quest to get right with God, and that is what lead me here I prayed for him to lead me and I asked google a question and this sight came up. Here I am.
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Welcome, welcome!!! Ask anything you want, there are so many knowledgeable folks here. If you can, try to listen to Catholic Answers Radio especially the forum for non-Catholics…Tim Staples(former Assembly of God, Scott Hahn, Steve Ray (former Baptist) are all converts & are top-notch in apologists. You can stream the podcasts to your computer or download to mp3.

We will be praying for the Holy Spirit to continue leading you…Thanks be to God!
 
When we were Church of Christ, I rarely heard anything said about the Catholic Church. But when I did hear someone say anything about the Catholic Church, I usually had to put my 2 cents in to correct what was being said. I find it strange that non-Catholics continue to be so uncharitable about the Catholic teachings considering how many times they have been corrected. I understand Protestant laity ignorance, but not their leaders. How else do you think I became Catholic…Truth…not just the WORD, but the truth about what the Catholic Church teaches…which is the Truth.
 
JonNC said:
Actually, the term protestant has its roots in the protests at the Second Diet of Speyer in 1529, which soght to limit religious activity of the non-Catholic churches. It was a protest of a government action.

Jon
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Jon. You rock… I wish there was a little smiley face that I could post on here with a beer…I never newnw that’s where protest came from. I always hear the above story…👍
 
JillianRose said:
Originally Posted by JonNC
Actually, the term protestant has its roots in the protests at the Second Diet of Speyer in 1529, which soght to limit religious activity of the non-Catholic churches. It was a protest of a government action.
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Yes, that’s how the term started. Some have suggested that it’s appropriate for protestants to continue using it, for unrelated reasons. See, for example, anglicancontinuum.blogspot.com/2009/07/pro-and-con-testantism.html
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JonNC said:
Actually, the term protestant has its roots in the protests at the Second Diet of Speyer in 1529, which soght to limit religious activity of the non-Catholic churches. It was a protest of a government action.

Jon
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It was a protest against the Holy Roman Empire. What is the Holy Roman Empire?
 
JonNC said:
Actually, the term protestant has its roots in the protests at the Second Diet of Speyer in 1529, which soght to limit religious activity of the non-Catholic churches. It was a protest of a government action.

Jon
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Ok. I’ve read what and where the Holy Roman Empire was at the time. JonNC, can you suggest a source stating where this term “protestant” came from out of that Diet of Speyer?
 
Thankyou (name removed by moderator). So the Holy Roman Empire was the Western Empire or the Roman Catholic Church? In the wiki link you gave me it said that the Western Empire was the empire seperate from the Eastern one. Was that the Byzantine empire centered in Constantinople? And did that produce the Eastern Orthodox Chruch???
 
All the churches that I’ve attendent in these years, they spoke very often about the Catholic church above all when arrives Christmas, Easter or other specific Catholic holidays. I’m happy to be out the protestant\pentecostal world.
 
Thankyou (name removed by moderator). Ok I am understand the Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Empire better. The link you gave me about the Holy Roman Empire says that Charles who was leader of the HRE was crowned by PopeClementVII. Why did a pope have to crown him?
 
Patavium said:
A question for our nonCatholic friends, and former nonCatholic friends. Does the Church YOU attend spends time during the services, bible studies, and other church activities talking about the Catholic Church?

if Yes, Do you know why they did this? What was the purpose?

if now you are Catholic, is this the same experience at Mass in the Catholic Church? or in other activities affiliated directly to the Catholic parish you attend?

My experience

I am a born and raised Catholic. I lapsed during some period, but returned to the Catholic Church. During my 14 years as Catholic, I went to a Jesuit High School, and I attended for years Mass, I NEVER heard about other noncatholic christians teachings or mentioning of them during Mass. I learned about noncatholic christians through books, and private talk (with fellow catholics, priests) outside the parish services.
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Holy Mother Church does talk about other churches but not during Mass or usually not during other parish affiliated activities. I think a lot of Pentecostal and such churches talk A LOT about the Catholic Church.
 
Patavium said:
A question for our nonCatholic friends, and former nonCatholic friends. Does the Church YOU attend spends time during the services, bible studies, and other church activities talking about the Catholic Church?

if Yes, Do you know why they did this? What was the purpose?

if now you are Catholic, is this the same experience at Mass in the Catholic Church? or in other activities affiliated directly to the Catholic parish you attend?

My experience

I am a born and raised Catholic. I lapsed during some period, but returned to the Catholic Church. During my 14 years as Catholic, I went to a Jesuit High School, and I attended for years Mass, I NEVER heard about other noncatholic christians teachings or mentioning of them during Mass. I learned about noncatholic christians through books, and private talk (with fellow catholics, priests) outside the parish services.
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As a Catholic revert, when I was in protestant churches most times it was doctrinal issues of the Catholic church they would discuss. Sometimes they wouldn’t come right out and say it was Catholic doctrine but stress very firmly their opinions, such as infant baptism, communion and others.

During Bible studies, “yes” they would come right out and talk about things of the Catholic church.
 
It used to.

That’s actually how I came to the Church. Mother is a Baptist and Dad is…an Atheist, I think. It was about a year ago, while I wasn’t going to church.

A friend invited me to come to their chuch. I did and it was about the third Sunday that the pastor went off on the “Catholics are idol worshipping crazy people” routine.

So, I decided to go to Mass to find out what it was really like. I wanted to form my own opinion. I attended RCIA and learned more about the doctrine and it all made sense.

I was Baptized, Confirmed and took my First Communion on the last Easter Vigil, and I’ve gone to Mass every Sunday all by myself ever since.

Okay. That’s my story. And Iove telling it. 😃
 
JonNC said:
Actually, the term protestant has its roots in the protests at the Second Diet of Speyer in 1529, which soght to limit religious activity of the non-Catholic churches. It was a protest of a government action.

Jon
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From what I have learned, it was a protest against the Holy Roman Empire. The HRE was lead by the Emperor who was coronated by the Pope. At coronation, he was to promise to undertake and protest in the presence of God and Blessed Peter the Apostle, that he would be the protector and defender of the Holy Roman Church in all ways. So in other words, it was a religious protest especially after reading what Speyer was about. Interesting subject though.
 
Diana_Catherine said:
As a Catholic revert, when I was in protestant churches most times it was doctrinal issues of the Catholic church they would discuss. Sometimes they wouldn’t come right out and say it was Catholic doctrine but stress very firmly their opinions, such as infant baptism, communion and others.

During Bible studies, “yes” they would come right out and talk about things of the Catholic church.
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I would you say this is normal.
 
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