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

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I was accused of blasphemy when I said Mary was the ark of the new covenant. All he heard was new covenant… I kept saying ark ark but he flipped out lol.
 
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Oh boy, do I have a lot! My wife and I entered the Church at the 2016 Easter Vigil. Lots of interesting experiences, including (sadly) one from a Catholic:

Dad’s Catholic coworker
(after being told I was converting) Why would he want to do that? :eek:

My uncle
Had an email discussion where he eventually said he was worried about my daughter growing up in a Catholic environment. He’d been researching Catholicism, apparently, and his ‘research’ told him that we worship Mary (among other things.) He also reads tonnes of highly critical articles of Pope Francis on LifeSiteNews and nothing positive about the Church. 😦

My boss
Hired me as a teacher in a ‘Christian’ school, after I told him I was planning on becoming a Catholic. Since I clearly knew the Bible very well, there was no way I was serious, despite the fact that my application asked for books I’d read recently and I listed Hail Holy Queen, A Protestant’s Dilemma, Evangelical is Not Enough and Where We Got the Bible: Our Debt to the Catholic Church. He thought I was just looking for a halfway point between my wife’s Pentecostal background and my Reformed background and somehow thought, ‘Hey, let’s try the Catholic Church!’ …so basically, I’m too smart to be suckered in but clueless enough to think that the Catholic Church might be a halfway stop between Reformed and Pentecostal style churches… :confused:

He told me my contract would be honored, but asked me to keep my Catholicism as private as possible and meet with a Protestant pastor. He said I wouldn’t have my contract renewed, but I wasn’t being dismissed for being Catholic, it was for ‘other reasons’… when pressed, said that it was because I started receiving communion in a Catholic Church. 🤷 They got quite upset that I characterized it as being dismissed for my faith and spent some time trying to convince me that this was nothing of the sort. The whole thing was made doubly ironic because the pastor I was asked to meet with works for a Catholic university, and when they were trying to get me to see it as a mutually agreed upon parting of ways, kept asking me what would happen if they came out as evangelicals while working for ‘Scott Hahn’s university’… turns out, something very different… (see bylaw 3.3 if you follow the link… lol)

My mom
(After I mentioned being interesting in joining the Knights of Columbus) I heard you have to deny that God exists in order to achieve the highest rank. :confused:

Grandparents in-law
Asked why this happened? Did I not grow up in a Bible-believing church? What would make me want to join the Roman Church which is a church-believing church? 😦

Father IL
We’re becoming Catholic.
FIL gets up and walks out.
(He has since apologized. He was mostly surprised, didn’t know how to react.)

Friend
(after I told him I was converting) You do know that I hate and despise everything about the Catholic Church, don’t you? (We are still on good terms, he’s got no tact but also not a mean bone in his body.)

Sister
(after I told her we’d be attending a Catholic Church)
Her: For evangelism purposes, right?
Me: Kinda… mostly to be evangelized.
Her: We’ll see how long that lasts.

Coworker
(paraphrase) I know many ex-Catholics in my Bible study who were damaged by the Catholic church. Their priests visit parishioners to get drunk, they think strange things about Mary. I’ve got a very good book by an ex-Catholic you should read.

Weird Family Discussions
I tried explaining why it wasn’t sufficient for us to simply attend a Protestant service on Sunday when we stayed the weekend with them. I was asked if we’d get in trouble for missing Mass, etc. Now we end up going to both whenever we visit to keep the peace.

Some of my family members were worried that we believed they were going to hell for being Protestant.

Dad
(after I explained that I disagreed with sola scriptura)
Dad: Well, we don’t believe sola scriptura either!
Mom: Uhhh… yes we do…
(I love my dad dearly, but the fact that he attends Protestant church services every Sunday, has hosted Protestant Bible study groups and has been a deacon and an elder etc. and still missed this blows me out of the water whenever I think about it.)

!An Important Disclaimer!
By the way, it should be said that to the best of my knowledge these are all lovely people who sincerely want the best for us. In particular, my parents and siblings all attended the Easter Vigil and took my wife and I out for dinner beforehand to celebrate. I would also not be so blunt if I were using real names, some of these were innocent or sincerely regretted mistakes 🙂
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Question for you, when you converted did you make it a point to tell others you were converting?
 
Still working through the thread (2013, right now), but I throw in mine:

At the family dentist that I have attended my entire life, the receptionist asked the usual inquires about life. Upon informing her that I was planning on entering the seminary…

Her: “So, does that mean that you will be like a Nun? You can’t get married.”
Me: Offers a brief explanation of the difference between the 3 vows and the 1 vow, eventually confirming her statement
Her: “Oh. So, can you still date?”
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