Nuttiest Things Non-Catholics Have Said or Done Around You Because You're Catholic

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When I was in Catholic school and still followed the religion, a friend from the public school asked me how many Popes we currently had. That got a little chuckle from me.
 
SecretaryMonday said:
😃 Regarding the “some thing(s),” a Methodist made the comment to me that at least the Catholic Church preserved the Bible for us, so they weren’t all bad.
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CatholicSheila said:
Last night I heard the following line from my brother:

Protestants came out of the Catholic Church, so the Catholic Church must have some things right.

Said in a way to suggest by some things, he means one or two. He was trying so hard to be charitable, but I had to prevent myself laughing.
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Ha, well. At least that’s something to work with.
 
One of my Christian friends once told someone who wasn’t Christian.

If you want to be Christian at least go into Catholicism.
 
Not a Catholic thing - but Anglican.

I had bought a Good News Bible in modern English - and my father was furious. He wanted me to continue reading the King James version. “If it was good enough for Jesus, it should be good enough for you.”
 
Gabriel_of_12 said:
God works in mysterious ways;

I was asked to chair a public at risk youth summer softball league, I refused at first and joked if you vote me to chair this season, my first act will be to place a rule, before all games, the teams, coaches and umpires meet on the pitchers mound to pray, they agreed, so I accepted the nomination.

During the season, I would always chalk the field, umpire and assisted coaching a team, so I was always praying on the mound. Every time I would sign myself with the cross. Funny thing, after about a month of play, I noticed almost every team had kids from tee-ball to the 17year old teens, were also doing the sign of the cross after prayer on the pitchers mound.

Iam chalking the field early one Saturday morning before the championship round of play for all the divisions, and I get bombared by a host of parents and board members, demanding me to leave the public park, and they are removing me as their Chariman. I made terms, to do this officially in a board meeting, after the championships. We agreed.

During the board meeting I asked the board before I resign and leave, can anyone please give me one good reason what prompted such an action from all of you? The wife of the board member who asked me to Chair the league’s board, stood up pointed her finger at my nose and shouted, “We are kicking you off the board because you are a Catholic”!!!

I said, “Oh?”, ok peace be with you all. Many coaches followed me in support, I asked them to remain coaching the kids, because they need them as role models.

Here is the mystery of how God works. 10years later to date; This same woman who accused me of being Catholic, without knowing, met me again face to face registering herself and her son’s for my R.C.I.A class this Septermber. I smiled at her and hugged her and told her I was glad she came to register and look forward to teaching her our Catholic faith. No words needed to be exchanged from the past, because I was so overjoyed to see her and recieve her application, that joy removed any and all negativity.

The only thing that remains from that incident is what got recorded in the boards minutes that day. How I would love to update those minutes.

God is good:)
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Your humility through all of this is inspiring. Thank you for the example you set to others …

and to me.
 
Lost_Sheep said:
And then there are the people who hear the term “Immaculate Conception” and assume it to mean the Virgin Birth. My (non-Catholic) uncle once told my cousin “If you come home from college pregnant it better be an immaculate conception!”
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I will admit, that until studying the Catholic Church, that’s what I thought too. 😊
 
TheologyStudent said:
another friend: “I believe that any animal that has an owner, when that animal dies and then it’s owner dies, then the animal will go to heaven with its owner. There’s a legend that says all the dead animals are on a rainbow in heaven.”
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I don’t know about that rainbow thing but I’ve told the little girl dog that she’s going to love Jesus and I’m pretty sure that Jesus is going to love the little girl dog. Please don’t disabuse me of this.
 
This is a bit of a twist on the subject. I know this couple and the woman used to work for my wife. They married, maybe 7ish years ago. Her first marriage at I think about 37ish years old and his second. Before you think anything poorly about the woman, she is attractive, friendly, a great personality, etc. She had proposals in her youth but didn’t feel right about them until him.

The husband was a cradle Catholic and she was a protestant. Not long after they were married, she went through inquiry, RCIA and came into full communion with the church.

Her and my wife are still good friends and even though they are an hour apart, they get together several times a year to catch up. Back in February, I was in inquiry at my church and my wife told this woman that I was seriously considering conversion. Her response,

wait for it…

this is a shocker…

“Why would he do that? It’s not like he married a Catholic?”

I guess I need to pray for that girl. She’s been a Catholic for a few years now and obviously doesn’t have a genuine understanding about that which she has become.

Again, I will say, this is a wonderful woman. Perhaps she does understand what she has become and was just surprised that someone came into it on their own.

Thinking about it makes me think of what I told my 12 year old daughter when her best friend made a thoughtless remark that hurt her feelings. “Even good people can say stupid things sometimes.”
 
My Coptic friend (for those of you who know Copts you know they have a huge Marian devotion) asked if we still call God the Trinity because we believe there are four persons: Father, Son, Holy Spirit and Mary :rolleyes:.
 
Where I live, more than 80% of the pop is catholic. Even our presidents had a constitutional obligation to convert (that changed in ´94). I have a few good friends that are jews but I don´t think I´ve ever talked about religion with a protestant (in fact, only met one a few of times, evangelicals and mormons). Having said this, it always baffles me when I read about prejudices against roman catholics and, even though I´m kind of glad I don´t have to struggle with them, I think it would be nice to be able to expand my ecumenical knowledge.

My brother in law is an hinduist (that´s almost a mythical creature here, hehe) and really enjoy talking to him about our different beliefs.
 
canis73 said:
Where I live, more than 80% of the pop is catholic. Even our presidents had a constitutional obligation to convert (that changed in ´94). I have a few good friends that are jews but I don´t think I´ve ever talked about religion with a protestant (in fact, only met one a few of times, evangelicals and mormons). Having said this, it always baffles me when I read about prejudices against roman catholics and, even though I´m kind of glad I don´t have to struggle with them, I think it would be nice to be able to expand my ecumenical knowledge.
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It would be better to convert them. The devil is the father of lies. If so many lies about the Catholic Church exist it only proves that these people are being led by him. It also proves the Holiness of the Church, since even he needs to lie about it to make it look bad!

Ecumenism should only be on the community level, but perhaps I could be picking you up wrong.
 
When I was in high school I was a member of a very large Baptist church in Stockton, CA. The youth pastor in charge of the high school program was a pretty devout follower of John MacArthur and at one point he told me that Catholic don’t believe in the Trinity (amongst some other severe misunderstandings of our faith). When I pulled up on his computer proof, from the Vatican website, that we certainly do believe in the Trinity he looked at me and said “Well, that was written by Catholics so I don’t trust it. I believe what John MacArthur says over some Catholic document.”
 
I went with a non-Catholic friend to a Catholic funeral Mass, which ended with the final blessing and incensing of the casket before processing out.

Afterward he said, “what was that incense thing all about? Is that supposed to drive out demons?” He was serious. I just laughed, but then had to briefly explain the purpose of incense.
 
My Dad used to tell the story of how he wasn’t sure whether he was going to propose to my mom or not. They’d been going together, but all his family was Baptist and mostly took a dim view of Catholics. Except that his mother liked the girl—my mom—and thought he should marry her. When my mom went to a different city to work for a time, thinking the relationship might be going nowhere, his mother had a short talk with him. “I don’t care if she IS Catholic!” she said. “You need to marry her!”
 
Brandall said:
I will admit, that until studying the Catholic Church, that’s what I thought too. 😊
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You’d be surprised at how many Catholics misunderstand this doctrine.

At work once, I was talking with a co-worker–a Catholic–about the upcoming feast of the Immaculate Conception, and why it occurs so close to Christmas. “It seems like it should be nine months before Christmas!” she said. “No, no,” I replied, “we’re talking her conception, not HIS!”
 
POJIUJH said:
It would be better to convert them. The devil is the father of lies. If so many lies about the Catholic Church exist it only proves that these people are being led by him. It also proves the Holiness of the Church, since even he needs to lie about it to make it look bad!

Ecumenism should only be on the community level, but perhaps I could be picking you up wrong.
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Thx for your reply. I´ve never felt qualified to convert anyone. I always thought faith was a calling, not a lecture, so I try to lead by example (most of the time failing misserably I must admit) hoping that others will find their own path into the church. You raise an interesting point about ecumenism. Something to think about. Regards!
 
My sister is not Catholic but she half wants to be, and she uses EWTN to get rid of houseguests who stay too late. 😃 Around 11pm, she was bored and tired and also wondering why her friend was still visiting, so she flipped the TV on to watch a documentary of St. Francis of Assisi. The friend watched for a couple of minutes, and at the part where St. Francis throws away his rich clothing in front of his dad and vows to take God as his only father, she said, “He’s just throwing a hissy fit because the Church wouldn’t take his money.” Then she said, “Catholics are one of those things, you know, where it’s like, who thought that was a good idea?” (The plot succeeded; the houseguest disappeared.)

Also, I was talking with an old lady about our local church that has recently opened a youth center. She said, “That youth center is the best thing they’ve ever done! I wish they would open it to the whole community…but then it would be full of black kids.” :eek: (I said, “That would be okay.”)
 
Falco said:
Not a Catholic thing - but Anglican.

I had bought a Good News Bible in modern English - and my father was furious. He wanted me to continue reading the King James version. “If it was good enough for Jesus, it should be good enough for you.”
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He does realize it’s not even the first English translation, right? (Douay-Rhiems is older, people!)
Lost_Sheep said:
And then there are the people who hear the term “Immaculate Conception” and assume it to mean the Virgin Birth. My (non-Catholic) uncle once told my cousin “If you come home from college pregnant it better be an immaculate conception!”
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DeadEARTH. It’s an RPG where you roll random mutations at character generation (and the character might not even survive). One said mutation is “immaculate conception,” the character is pregnant whether they’re female or not. :doh2:
 
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