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

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Lost_Sheep said:
One time I got into it with a Baptist co-worker.

After she told me all these misinformed “facts” about the CC I asked her where she heard such things?

From her pastor, of course.

I asked, well if you wanted to know about the Catholic Church, wouldn’t it make more sense to ask a Catholic priest? Or least a Catholic?

Her answer was basically that she trusted the information from her pastor more than a real Catholic.
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I’ve received similar responses. Once, I responded with, “I guess y’all do have your own Pope, whose teachings about the faith you take as infallible.” Not the most christian or accurate Catholic response, and I felt bad about it afterwards. A week or so later, I sought the guy out to apologize, and he said, “Thank you. You really gave me something to think about, and I’m also sorry for criticizing your church.”
 
Iconodule said:
I’ve received similar responses. Once, I responded with, “I guess y’all do have your own Pope, whose teachings about the faith you take as infallible.” Not the most christian or accurate Catholic response, and I felt bad about it afterwards. A week or so later, I sought the guy out to apologize, and he said, “Thank you. You really gave me something to think about, and I’m also sorry for criticizing your church.”
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That response did make me chuckle in spite of myself. But it’s interesting to think about it that way.
 
Iconodule said:
I’ve received similar responses. Once, I responded with, “I guess y’all do have your own Pope, whose teachings about the faith you take as infallible.” Not the most christian or accurate Catholic response, and I felt bad about it afterwards. A week or so later, I sought the guy out to apologize, and he said, “Thank you. You really gave me something to think about, and I’m also sorry for criticizing your church.”
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Most non-Catholics I run into completely do not understand the doctrine of papal infallibility. People seem to thing the Pope is perfect and can do no wrong. They don’t understand that “infallibility” only extends to the Pope’s interpretation of God’s law on matters of faith and morals.
 
Lost_Sheep said:
Most non-Catholics I run into completely do not understand the doctrine of papal infallibility. People seem to thing the Pope is perfect and can do no wrong. They don’t understand that “infallibility” only extends to the Pope’s interpretation of God’s law on matters of faith and morals.
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This poll, patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/03/05/new-poll-shows-that-even-catholics-dont-agree-with-catholicism/ indicates that 46% of Catholics do not think the Pope infallible in matters regarding faith and morals with another 14% that don’t know.

It’s kind of difficult to fault non Catholics for not understanding the doctrine when more than 50% (according to poll) either disagree or do not understand.
 
Iconodule said:
I’ve received similar responses. Once, I responded with, “I guess y’all do have your own Pope, whose teachings about the faith you take as infallible.” Not the most christian or accurate Catholic response, and I felt bad about it afterwards. A week or so later, I sought the guy out to apologize, and he said, “Thank you. You really gave me something to think about, and I’m also sorry for criticizing your church.”
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Um. Hmm.

Seems to me that you instinctively performed one of the 7 Spiritual Works of Mercy.

Instructing the ignorant.

Absolutely the most Christian AND accurate (well, maybe a more comprehensive term for it would be “appropriate?”) response !

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I’m sure you said the truth with charity in your tone of voice, too.

:clapping::tiphat:😉
 
Lost_Sheep said:
Most non-Catholics I run into completely do not understand the doctrine of papal infallibility. People seem to thing the Pope is perfect and can do no wrong. They don’t understand that “infallibility” only extends to the Pope’s interpretation of God’s law on matters of faith and morals.
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Those statistics are so, so sad!

Another reason for the call for the “New Evangelization.”

That means – evangelizing our fellow Catholics who have somehow lost the Faith – or have somehow strayed even if only for deciding to agree with this-or-that of the Church’s teachings.

A side-effect of the New Evangelization is that I keep making it to point to more fully research, learn, and pray for understanding as much as humanly possible the Mysteries of the Church – for my own soul’s purpose. If not for only to give a defense to what it is that I, a practicing Catholic, believe and do.
 
I am a convert(3 years this past Easter) and my beloved Protestant aunt who I love dearly has made some wacky comments. One time while visiting her she said she saw a report about how the seminaries where just full of hedonistic behavior with orgies and the like. I was so stunned. I laughed and said well I must have missed that report. And told her that sort of thing doesn’t go on. Don’t think she believed me. And of course every time we go to visit her she has to tell us the story about the priest at the only Catholic parish in her town. That he was arrested for molesting children. Every single time we visit! As if that sort of thing doesn’t go on in other groups. 🤷
 
I’ve been told that nuns are prostitutes for priests.

Catholics apparently believe that the monsters in Daniel and Revelation are real and we’re afraid they’ll come out of a swamp and kill us all
 
My mother’s family is Catholic. My Father’s family is Episcopalian. My Wife’s family are all staunch Evangelical Calvinists.

When my wife and I went through RCIA, that was bad enough. lol.

…But when we had our second child baptised as an infant… Wow did the proverbial mess hit the fan!

My relatives on my mom’s side all showed up, even distant relations who barely know me.

My relatives on my Dad’s side are too liberal to care, so they sent congratulatory cards, but did not attend.

My wife’s relatives refused to acknowledge the affair in total horror. Most did not even send their regrets that they would not be attending, and a couple had the gall to castigate my wife for “joining and initiating her children into the greatest satanic cult the world has ever known.”

Dead serious.
 
You know, on the bright side, “greatest” can also mean good… 😛
 
My husband’s family is very nice. But there’s always one person in every family that can be a little abrasive. This particular lady began a tirade stating how all priests (really, she said “all”) are pedophiles and cracked some crude jokes about it. Our young son was in the room, but I don’t think he heard. I gently explained how it is shameful that some individuals within the Church committed these crimes. I tried to assure her that, statistically, the percentage of abusive priests was actually quite low: around 2%, according to the most recent estimates, and how much the Church has changed policies over the past ten years. Her response?

“I don’t believe in statistics”. Then she made several more crude jokes about priests and kids. 😦
 
annspazz said:
When I met my husband,a non affiliated Protestant, he tried quoting the Hail Mary;

Hal Mary full of grace…fruit of the loom…etc.

I almost cried laughing. He said, as a child, he would see nuns saying the Rosary on TV…and just could not figure out what they were saying!
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It’s a good thing I was not drinking anything while I read this post.
 
White_Peony said:
I’ve been told that nuns are prostitutes for priests.
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Maria65 said:
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classmate also stated that when 2 Catholics got married, the priest got to spend the wedding night with the bride!
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These sorts of stories have been circulated in Protestant circles for centuries. You should see some of the stories in print from the 19th century – there’s this sort of garbage, and much worse, to boot! :sad_yes:
 
Just got a new one. Not so much directed at Catholics but at all Christians.
So you know scientists actually found out recently that camels didn’t exist until two thousand years after the bible. So unless there was a single camel hiding about when the bible was written it’s been proven to be fake. It means that the bible had to have been written two thousand years allegedly after baby Jesus was born.
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I didn’t realise that camels only showed up in the last few decades.
 
My “Former” Catholic ex girlfriend (who was not actually raised Catholic, but was baptized as a child when she was very young) tried to quote the Bible to me to prove the Church was the Whore of Babylon and tell me Catholicism is unbiblical. I’m confused, as she knows I read my Bible.
 
Catholic_farmer said:
My husband’s family is very nice. But there’s always one person in every family that can be a little abrasive. This particular lady began a tirade stating how all priests (really, she said “all”) are pedophiles and cracked some crude jokes about it. Our young son was in the room, but I don’t think he heard. I gently explained how it is shameful that some individuals within the Church committed these crimes. I tried to assure her that, statistically, the percentage of abusive priests was actually quite low: around 2%, according to the most recent estimates, and how much the Church has changed policies over the past ten years. Her response?

“I don’t believe in statistics”. Then she made several more crude jokes about priests and kids. 😦
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I’m not sure how child abuse is funny:mad:
 
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