My first taste of anti-Catholicism

[Character_Zero]

Welcome to the club. Just wait until someone accuses you of lying to him after you repeatedly tell him you do not worship Mary. And then he refuses to talk to you until you admit you do worship Mary, because he won’t associate with “liars.”

Moments like those I read what Jesus said to the apostles at the Last Supper (in John) about “expect to be persecuted- they hate Me, they’ll hate you too.”

I just call it redemptive suffering and offer it up!

 

[Elzee]

pnewton:

This summer I went to visit my aunt. She called my mother to ask what kind of food we (Catholics) could eat. Specifically, she didn’t know if we ate pork.

Only if it’s smoked (by incense of course) and we face east while doing it.

 

[Mystophilus]

djrakowski:

My wife called her parents for a casual chat, but her sister answered the phone instead. That’s when she launched into a diatribe about how we’re rushing into a decision without knowing all of the facts (last time I checked, 9 months of study and prayer wasn’t exactly a ‘rush’) and that we’re just doing this so we can think we’re ‘better’ than her. On that second point, she used the exclusion of non-Catholic Christians from the Eucharist (in comparison to her Anglican church, in which the so-called Eucharist is open to everyone). No amount of explaining the Catholic perspective on the Eucharist would satisfy her.

There is a peculiar yet remarkably common pyschological effect in which an individual incorporates her group affiliations into her own identity. Thus, your sister-in-law considers Protestantism to be part of her own essence. As a result, your departure from Protestantism, which necessarily involves a rejection thereof, appears as a rejection of her. Parents often go through the same feelings when their children convert to a different faith.

What I would like to suggest is that you or your wife could take the sister out to lunch and explain to her that you are not rejecting Protestantism, or her, as evil, and that you simply feel that this is where God wants you to be. She may not agree with your choice, but you can help to prevent her from being (unreasonably) offended by what you are doing, so long as you really care about her.

 

[DJgang]

djrakowski:

. On that second point, she used the exclusion of non-Catholic Christians from the Eucharist (in comparison to her Anglican church, in which the so-called Eucharist is open to everyone). No amount of explaining the Catholic perspective on the Eucharist would satisfy her.

So, I’m already experiencing anti-Catholic bias, and I’m not even Catholic

Your SIL **KNOWS **the Catholic perspective on the Eucharist, especially since she is Anglican.

Ever thought SIL might be scared to become Catholic herself?

Just .02 from an Anglican/Episcolian…or whatever you want to call me.

 

[AdvanceAlways]

dont be put down by bias and discrimination. It actually will get quite amusing. Turn insults into a laughing matter because believe me, they will get very crazy!

 

[thequeen]

When I converted to catholocism I lost a whole group of friends who felt that I was putting my soul in danger I realise now that they were not my friends to begin with I now have friends that are devout catholics and they help me keep the faith and see how misinformed that some people are about the beauty of our catholic faith

 

[kalt]

My sister-in-law’s nonsense was hardly a cause of our ‘suffering,’ but I get your point nonetheless

I may be confused, but are you equating the immorality of our nation with the fact that it is ‘Protestant dominated?’ It isn’t morally conservative Protestants doing the killing in the abortion mills.

I think the poster was saying that this country has been run predominantly by non-Catholic Christians since the beginning, and yet we had slavery and more recently abortion. The US supported euthenasia and sterilization of undesireables before Hitler did.
It may not have been the “morally conservative Protestants” who passed these laws, but it was the “morally conservative Protestants” who voted the law makers into office and kept them there despite their views on these issues.

How many people who would say they believe in a moral Christian view on life abandonned their principles to vote for Obama? Abanodonned their defense of life for the promise of “redistribution of wealth”, hoping for a winfall from the “rich”.

If they get their way, this new health care plan will pay for abortions but will restrict health care to the elderly who aren’t productive anymore. Wait, that didn’t come out quite right.

This, I think, is what the poster meant.

 

[Bob_Crowley]

So, my wife and I have been studying and praying about a possible conversion to Catholicism. The evidence is all over our house, from the TV tuned to EWTN, the radio tuned to Ave Maria, the books by Keating, Ray and Akin, and the weekly bulletins from our visits to SS Cyril & Methodius.

Throughout this time of study, my wife’s family have been quite supportive of our search for truth (although they’ve viewed it as a search for us to satisfy our preferences). However, this all changed a few nights ago. My wife called her parents for a casual chat, but her sister answered the phone instead. That’s when she launched into a diatribe about how we’re rushing into a decision without knowing all of the facts (last time I checked, 9 months of study and prayer wasn’t exactly a ‘rush’) and that we’re just doing this so we can think we’re ‘better’ than her. On that second point, she used the exclusion of non-Catholic Christians from the Eucharist (in comparison to her Anglican church, in which the so-called Eucharist is open to everyone). No amount of explaining the Catholic perspective on the Eucharist would satisfy her.

So, I’m already experiencing anti-Catholic bias, and I’m not even Catholic

Yeah, well, I remember one of my former Protestant compatriots saying, “So, how are you gunna feel when you start bowing down and worshipping statues?? Huh??”

And he was a doctor.

 

[Bob_Crowley]

After reading what goes on in the U.S, I feel lucky to live in Australia. the only anti- Catholic feelings i have ever encountered was when i was working as a grounds keeper at a multi deomination christian school. We ( myself and two other grounds keepers) were standing out the front of our school which just happens to be across the road from a catholic school. Which had the best kept lawns you could ever see. But on this day the lawn was a little long (about a inch longer than they normaly kept it) and one of my co-workers said “pfft you would think they would take better care of their lawns” I scoffed to myself when i turned around and our lawns were riddled with patches of dirt and bindi’s.

Off track a bit, but that reminds me of a story my brother in law told me. He used to be swimming coach at one of Brisbane’s better known Catholic schools. Anyway it seems some of the boys were being disciplined. They had to carry a load of timber from one side of the oval to the other, put it down and then carry it back again. The trouble was they had to do it in bare feet.

And the oval was riddled with bindi-eye.

 

[kalt]

There is a peculiar yet remarkably common pyschological effect in which an individual incorporates her group affiliations into her own identity. Thus, your sister-in-law considers Protestantism to be part of her own essence. As a result, your departure from Protestantism, which necessarily involves a rejection thereof, appears as a rejection of her. Parents often go through the same feelings when their children convert to a different faith.

What I would like to suggest is that you or your wife could take the sister out to lunch and explain to her that you are not rejecting Protestantism, or her, as evil, and that you simply feel that this is where God wants you to be. She may not agree with your choice, but you can help to prevent her from being (unreasonably) offended by what you are doing, so long as you really care about her.

Also note that we aren’t Catholic because we reject other choices. Being a Catholic is an affirmative choice. We are Catholic because it is the church Christ founded. We are Catholic because we are Christian.

 

[happilycatholic]

You forgot “mackeral snappers”

I never before thought of myself as a baby-dipping mackeral snapper, but now when someone asks me about my faith, this is what I’ll tell them!

Okay, that’s just funny, I don’t care who you are!

:bounce:

 

[Sonny1954]

So, my wife and I have been studying and praying about a possible conversion to Catholicism. The evidence is all over our house, from the TV tuned to EWTN, the radio tuned to Ave Maria, the books by Keating, Ray and Akin, and the weekly bulletins from our visits to SS Cyril & Methodius.

Throughout this time of study, my wife’s family have been quite supportive of our search for truth (although they’ve viewed it as a search for us to satisfy our preferences). However, this all changed a few nights ago. My wife called her parents for a casual chat, but her sister answered the phone instead. That’s when she launched into a diatribe about how we’re rushing into a decision without knowing all of the facts (last time I checked, 9 months of study and prayer wasn’t exactly a ‘rush’) and that we’re just doing this so we can think we’re ‘better’ than her. On that second point, she used the exclusion of non-Catholic Christians from the Eucharist (in comparison to her Anglican church, in which the so-called Eucharist is open to everyone). No amount of explaining the Catholic perspective on the Eucharist would satisfy her.

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I’m sorry that you’ve already experienced a variant of anti-Catholicism. It probably won’t be the last one, either. All of us have stories. My grandparents had a KKK cross burned in their yard in 1920s Indiana. My father couldn’t get a bank loan in the early '50s because the bank had a policy of no loans to Catholics and Jews. I was told that I could not ride the school bus in the early '60s because to allow that would give preferential treatment to the Pope (whom I really didn’t know all that well )

Ah, those were the “good old days” when anti-Catholicism was **really **anti-Catholic!!

 

[ufamtobie]

So, my wife and I have been studying and praying about a possible conversion to Catholicism. The evidence is all over our house, from the TV tuned to EWTN, the radio tuned to Ave Maria, the books by Keating, Ray and Akin, and the weekly bulletins from our visits to SS Cyril & Methodius.

Throughout this time of study, my wife’s family have been quite supportive of our search for truth (although they’ve viewed it as a search for us to satisfy our preferences). However, this all changed a few nights ago. My wife called her parents for a casual chat, but her sister answered the phone instead. That’s when she launched into a diatribe about how we’re rushing into a decision without knowing all of the facts (last time I checked, 9 months of study and prayer wasn’t exactly a ‘rush’) and that we’re just doing this so we can think we’re ‘better’ than her. On that second point, she used the exclusion of non-Catholic Christians from the Eucharist (in comparison to her Anglican church, in which the so-called Eucharist is open to everyone). No amount of explaining the Catholic perspective on the Eucharist would satisfy her.

djrakowski.

( John 15: 20) Remember my word that I said to you: The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you: if they have kept my word, they will keep yours also.

Ufam Tobie