Does your non-Catholic Christian church teach you about Catholicism?

[strngrnrth]

My husband belongs to a Pentecostal church and until very recently (within the last 5 weeks) I’ve finally gathered the strength to stop bringing myself and my 4 year old to his church, and am now attending mass with the support of my husband. He’s never forced me to go to his church, and has, in the past, attended Mass with me and our son.

Anyhow, during the past 5 years, this is what DH’s pastor (who’s also his uncle) has preached during sermons:

1. Priests use spit to baptize babies.
2. Catholics don’t accept Jesus as their Saviour.
3. The Catholic Bibles should be thrown away.
4. Catholics and Mormons are the ones who God wants us to witness to.
5. Catholics don’t experience blessings since they don’t enforce tithing.
6. The Mass lacks the Holy Spirit because “all they have is their Mary.”

There are many many more things said about the Church by this pastor, who is a former Catholic, but it would take days for me to list them all.

Why is he saying these things? Do you think he has a personal grudge against the Church because of something that happened there or do you think he’s really that confused? Or is it that he makes a good living where he is? or something else?

 

[hoodrat]

Why is he saying these things? Do you think he has a personal grudge against the Church because of something that happened there or do you think he’s really that confused? Or is it that he makes a good living where he is? or something else?

You know, I’ve asked DH those very same questions and he has no idea. All I know is that if I’m at the service (the token Catholic lol) the pastor seems to say something against the Catholic Church, I think, for the purposes of converting me to his church and away from “those non-believers.” And such statements are always said with such anger.

I don’t think the pastor is confused, and he’s not making a good living by any means. He just doesn’t know any better. He left the Church when he was still a teenager. I’ve tried defending the Church once and I was just ambushed with scripture verses. And I wasn’t prepared. I’ve been learning and doing research for the past couple of months so I pray I’m better prepared for the next time the pastor and I talk.

 

[thirdn6]

My husband belongs to a Pentecostal church and until very recently (within the last 5 weeks) I’ve finally gathered the strength to stop bringing myself and my 4 year old to his church, and am now attending mass with the support of my husband. He’s never forced me to go to his church, and has, in the past, attended Mass with me and our son.

Anyhow, during the past 5 years, this is what DH’s pastor (who’s also his uncle) has preached during sermons:

1. Priests use spit to baptize babies.
2. Catholics don’t accept Jesus as their Saviour.
3. The Catholic Bibles should be thrown away.
4. Catholics and Mormons are the ones who God wants us to witness to.
5. Catholics don’t experience blessings since they don’t enforce tithing.
6. The Mass lacks the Holy Spirit because “all they have is their Mary.”

There are many many more things said about the Church by this pastor, who is a former Catholic, but it would take days for me to list them all.

Not surprising.
I’ve said before (my previous posts) that fallen away catholics (esp clergy or seminarians) MUST teach against Catholicism once they broke off. Like Judas who MUST do what he’s supposed to do once the grace was gone.
Poor innocent souls made hostage by these false teachers!

 

[A_Sombra]

QUOTE: This is very interesting. How can one be brought into Christ’s Holy Church without grace?

I dont get your drift . . . well, I probably do, but, I would like it expanded upon, if you don’t mind…

 

[A_Sombra]

QUOTE: This is very interesting. How can one be brought into Christ’s Holy Church without grace?

I dont get your drift . . . well, I probably do, but, I would like it expanded upon, if you don’t mind…

 

[Jimmy_B]

Not surprising.
I’ve said before (my previous posts) that fallen away catholics (esp clergy or seminarians) MUST teach against Catholicism once they broke off. Like Judas who MUST do what he’s supposed to do once the grace was gone.
Poor innocent souls made hostage by these false teachers!

Wow, the comments here have surprised me…this list (below) is crazy…

1. Priests use spit to baptize babies.
2. Catholics don’t accept Jesus as their Saviour.
3. The Catholic Bibles should be thrown away.
4. Catholics and Mormons are the ones who God wants us to witness to.
5. Catholics don’t experience blessings since they don’t enforce tithing.
6. The Mass lacks the Holy Spirit because “all they have is their Mary.”

 

[peary]

I belong to the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. My Church teaches us that the Church of Rome is outsdie the Unity of the Church of Christ because of the heretical teachings adopted by the Roman Pontiffs, including the Filioque, the Papacy, Infallibility of the Papcy, Immaculate Conception, Purgatory, and others, as well as the persecution and martyrdoms of Orthodox Christians by such so-called Catholic “Saints” and Holy Men as Josaphat Kuntsevich and Cardinal Stepinac.
I was raised Catholic, and when I converted to Orthodoxy, was told I had to be baptised-NOT “baptised again,” since the Roman “baptism” conveyed no grace-but simply Baptised into Christ’s Holy Church.

And you accept all that now?

 

[Jimmy_B]

I wanted to add that I believe that the “list of 6” is probably an exception and not the rule…at least I hope that this is the case…

Sometimes, when Catholics meet non-Catholics, they don’t always tell them what they really believe and visa-versa. This is why I started this thread…

 

[peary]

**In the early 1960s I lived in the ‘south’. For one year I went to a public school there, and it was terrible. There were two Catholics in the classroom - me and another student. The teacher used to have “bible readings” every morning, but we were sent out of the room because “Catholics don’t read the protestant bible.” When the reading and prayer were finished, we were allowed back into the room. The two of us used to say an Our Father, three Hail Marys and a Glory Be together outside of the room before we were called back in.

Even today, me, involved in music ministry for a protestant congregation, can hardly hold my tongue with the old coot they have for a pastor who says the most outlandish things about the Catholic Church.**

 

[Jimmy_B]

In the early 1960s I lived in the ‘south’. For one year I went to a public school there, and it was terrible. There were two Catholics in the classroom - me and another student. The teacher used to have “bible readings” every morning, but we were sent out of the room because “Catholics don’t read the protestant bible.” When the reading and prayer were finished, we were allowed back into the room. The two of us used to say an Our Father, three Hail Marys and a Glory Be together outside of the room before we were called back in.

Even today, me, involved in music ministry for a protestant congregation, can hardly hold my tongue with the old coot they have for a pastor who says the most outlandish things about the Catholic Church.