Is There a Place For Humor In Catholicism?

[Realcatholicgk]

While I do appreciate humor, those jokes were not appropriate

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Hi CWB,

Jokes are jokes, If they were degrading that would be different. I was born and raised in a Dominican parish in Phildelphila Penna. The Holy name of Jesus Parish! I heard this joke maybe 45-50 years ago! "I laughed then I laughed again tonight! " It is funny. Things don’t have to be tfunny to you so long as they aren’t sacrilegious.

Two men considering a religious vocation were having a conversation. "What is similar about the Jesuit and Dominican Orders? " the one asked.

The second replied, “Well, they were both founded by Spaniards – St. Dominic for the Dominicans, and St. Ignatius of Loyola for the Jesuits. They were also both founded to combat heresy – the Dominicans to fight the Albigensians, and the Jesuits to fight the Protestants.”

“What is different about the Jesuit and Dominican Orders?”

“Met any Albigensians lately?” **

 

[CWBetts]

The jokes were demeaning to Jesuits.
TRhe jokes inferred that Catholics wanted to see the death of Protestants.
The jokes inferred that Dominicans were superior to other orders.

This is not in line with acceptable humor.

 

[kimaz]

Realcatholicgk…I thought you should know I’ve been out of the “rest home” for months now! And if you don’t tell them about my jokes, it may be a few more!

 

[Realcatholicgk]

**Hi CWB,

You do realize that the Church has problems with the Jesuit order being tooo liberal right? But that is besides the point**

The jokes were demeaning to Jesuits.

**I saw them as Jokes not demeaning. **

The jokes inferred that Catholics wanted to see the death of Protestants.

**At one time the RCC did! it is History! **

The jokes inferred that Dominicans were superior to other orders.

**It was a Joke! But I did see a large S on several of their undershirts~! I know they were superior to a small boy! They scared the Hell out of me! **

This is not in line with acceptable humor.
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Some of the jokes were so old they weren’t funny others were Ok a couple were in fact funny “to me”. Please do not send any Dominican priests or Brothers after me! They still scare me!. ****
God Bless!**

 

[Realcatholicgk]

Realcatholicgk…I thought you should know I’ve been out of the “rest home” for months now! And if you don’t tell them about my jokes, it may be a few more!

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hi Kimaz,

Be careful CWBetts is censoring humor ON MY THREAD! Even Bruno wouldn’t do that! CWBetts is allow to have mistaken beliefs!

God Bless

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[Matrix_Refugee]

The Jesuit jokes remind me of a story about St. Ignatius Loyola dancing a jig to get a laugh out of an especially dour member of the Jesuits. Guess St. Iggy was gettin’ jiggy to get the vinegar out of whoever it was.

And then there was St. Thomas More and the practical joke he played on his daughter-in-law: she wanted her husband to buy her a pearl necklace, and she kept bugging him about it, but he didn’t have the money for it. So she went to St. Thomas and started bugging him about it.

So he presented her with a nice jewelry box… and inside was a string of white peas.

 

[CWBetts]

During the reformation there was plenty of killing to go around. Humor should be honoring to God, those jokes were not.

 

[Realcatholicgk]

During the reformation there was plenty of killing to go around. Humor should be honoring to God, those jokes were not.

**Hi CWB ,

Before you say “Humor should be honoring to God…” You must say "When I become Pope, otherwise it is just your opinion, until you do in fact become Pope!

“To do is to be” – Descartes
“To be is to do” – Sartre
“Do be do be do” – Sinatra

“To say of what is, that it is not, or of what is not, that it is, is false;while to say of what is, that it is, and of what is not, that it is not, is true.” - Aristotle

Prayer for BWB to pray daily for one week: " God, give me a sense of humor, so I will know a joke when it is hear or see one! Amen!

God Bless**

 

[Matrix_Refugee]

Amen to that, brother.

And let me introduce you, Mr. CWBetts, to St. Philip Neri, known as “the jester of Rome”, since he was, besides being a saintly priest who worked with young folks and countered the Reformation, just about one of the wackiest men ever to enter the priesthood. He once wore his cassock inside out and shaved only one side of his face, on purpose. Another time, he wore a blue cushion on his head as a hat. He had as many good joke books in his library as he had books on spiritual matters. He was also fond of giving strange but fitting penances to people in confession: a man who confessed being slothful had carry a big dog through the streets of Rome. Someone guilty of being proud was told to stand on a street corner and sing a silly song. A woman who gossiped was told to buy a chicken in the market, pluck the feathers and drop them as she returned back to the church where St. Philip was hearing her confession, then she had to go back and pick up all the feathers.

 

[kimaz]

hi Kimaz,

Be careful CWBetts is censoring humor ON MY THREAD! Even Bruno wouldn’t do that! CWBetts is allow to have mistaken beliefs!

God Bless

Hey careful is my middle name…unfortunately I don’t go by my middle name. (Oh yes…I really did just write that.)

 

[kimaz]

Amen to that, brother.

And let me introduce you, Mr. CWBetts, to St. Philip Neri, known as “the jester of Rome”, since he was, besides being a saintly priest who worked with young folks and countered the Reformation, just about one of the wackiest men ever to enter the priesthood. He once wore his cassock inside out and shaved only one side of his face, on purpose. Another time, he wore a blue cushion on his head as a hat. He had as many good joke books in his library as he had books on spiritual matters. He was also fond of giving strange but fitting penances to people in confession: a man who confessed being slothful had carry a big dog through the streets of Rome. Someone guilty of being proud was told to stand on a street corner and sing a silly song. A woman who gossiped was told to buy a chicken in the market, pluck the feathers and drop them as she returned back to the church where St. Philip was hearing her confession, then she had to go back and pick up all the feathers.

I think I just found another favorite saint.

“Cheerfulness strengthens the heart and makes us persevere in a good life. Therefore the servant of God ought always to be in good spirits.” -Saint Philip Neri

 

[LynneMarie]

I am Irish Catholic…whoa, do i need say more…? Does it only rain…of course we need humor or humour.(UK) …Lol…experience joy and laughter in this life, or you are already dead…With Some Smiling Irish eyes, LynneMarie

 

[CWBetts]

Amen to that, brother.

And let me introduce you, Mr. CWBetts, to St. Philip Neri, known as “the jester of Rome”, since he was, besides being a saintly priest who worked with young folks and countered the Reformation, just about one of the wackiest men ever to enter the priesthood. He once wore his cassock inside out and shaved only one side of his face, on purpose. Another time, he wore a blue cushion on his head as a hat. He had as many good joke books in his library as he had books on spiritual matters. He was also fond of giving strange but fitting penances to people in confession: a man who confessed being slothful had carry a big dog through the streets of Rome. Someone guilty of being proud was told to stand on a street corner and sing a silly song. A woman who gossiped was told to buy a chicken in the market, pluck the feathers and drop them as she returned back to the church where St. Philip was hearing her confession, then she had to go back and pick up all the feathers.

You all must learn the difference between hrmless silliness and so-called “jokes” designed to insult.

 

[rinnie]

I hope I don’t get in trouble for this.

A woman was standing nude, looking in the bedroom mirror. She is not happy with what she sees and says to her husband, I feel Horrible, I look fat, old, and ugly. I really need you to pay me a compliment.

The husband replies, your eyesights darn near perfect.

And then the fight started.;…

A man and his wife were sitting at a table at his school reunion. The wife saw a drunkard Lady sitting alone at a nearby table. The wife asked honey do you know her. He said yes shes my old girlfriend, I was told she took to drinking after we broke up, and hasn’t been sober since. My God, says his wife Who would think a person could go on celebrating that long?

And then the fight started…

 

[Matrix_Refugee]

You all must learn the difference between hrmless silliness and so-called “jokes” designed to insult.

I know the difference, but I’m wondering if you do, since in just about every post you’ve made in this thread, you’ve come off like a sour person whose sense of humor needs to be resurrected, ala Lazarus.

 

[Nino]

“Never spit when on a roller coaster!”.re gossip…’.Wear a hat when feeding Pigeons" re: dont expect a positive respone to every religious argument"…'beware of cafeteria food when it is moving!" some of the handsomist and prettiest folks have evil dirty minds…be alert at all costs…

 

[rinnie]

A women goes to the Dr. She comes home and said honey the Dr said I am in wonderful Health. My BP is perfect, my lungs are great, He said I look young for my age, and gave me a clean bill of health.

The husband is sitting in the chair, and says Oh Yeah, What did he say about your big fat ***.

The women smiled and said He never mentioned your name honey, never mentioned your name.

 

[rinnie]

There was this lady and she had a real southern drawl, Well it was Christmas and she had her manger set out.

The three wise men she had dressed up as fireman. So this guy stops and says Lady why do you have the three wise men dressed like fireman. She said because it say the three wise men came from a fire!

 

[CWBetts]

I know the difference, but I’m wondering if you do, since in just about every post you’ve made in this thread, you’ve come off like a sour person whose sense of humor needs to be resurrected, ala Lazarus.

I have a wonderful sense of humor, just ask my friends. I just fail to find insults and stereotypes funny

 

[Mattapoisett64]

I have a wonderful sense of humor, just ask my friends. I just fail to find insults and stereotypes funny

Plus, I thought I was the sour person on this thread, living in my “dark, miserable world” as you put it.