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

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Years before I became Catholic, I was told that the Church was so desperate for members that all you had to do was tell a priest that you wanted to be Catholic. He would then immediately make the sign of the cross over you, saying, “Domine, Domine, Domine” and that would be it.

It sure was a rude surprise when it took me nigh on 2 years. 😃
 
BarbG said:
I certainly haven’t read all 17 pages but this topic reminded me of something a “staunch” Lutheran friend of mine said a number of years ago. I had gone on a tour of Italy and was there for the 25th anniversdary of the Pope and the beatitude of Mother Teresa. Obviously there are a great many people in St. Peter’s Square – as I recall, something like 100,000. When I was telling my Lutheran friend about the the time in Rome and I mentioned the number in the Square, she said “weren’t you afraid”??? Why would I be afraid – of 100,000 Catholics standing in the Square and watching the Pope, possibly even praying!!!
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For a non-Catholic it is hard to imagine that.
For the world in general it is hard to understand how a 80 year old frail “German Shepherd”😉
can easily get 1 million people around Him doing nothing, just announcing His coming.
To tell you sincerely, even I awe in wonder…
 
SirStephen said:
MaltMom,

There is a very large contingent of Baptists who are adamant about non-drinking. I added the word “almost” to avoid such comments. A large contingent of the Baptist community looks down on drinking and engages in actual discussions regarding “grape juice” in the Old and New Testament in this regard. If you would like to see how far it goes, look at the books that go back and forth between those Baptists who don’t drink based on Biblical reasons and other Protestants who argue Biblically to the contrary.

I’ve had to remove myself from more than one painful discussion in this regard.
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The Mormons don’t recognize the divinity of Christ and Baptists don’t recognize each other in the liquor store…😃
 
My religious studies professor this past year, while he had a good understanding of the social justice aspect of the Catholic faith, said something that just made no sense to me. He said to the entire class that, because of Papal infallibility, the Pope could one day tell all Catholics to take up arms and overthrow the secular governments with force.

I tell you what, that class was as good of an apologetics exercise as I’ve ever had outside the internet! 😃
 
I’m not Catholic that I know of so I may be getting into trouble on my SECOND post here . . . anyway.

My Southern Baptist uncle said the Catholics were scum and a cult. That was extremely weird kind of like the pot calling the kettle black (please note that I do NOT consider Catholics scum or a cult).

Then the John Bircher that I delivered a paper to told me that the Catholics were a danger to the security of the US because they were buying up as much strategic real estate as they could in preparation for the absorption of the US into the Papal realm ha ha ha ha hahah ah a.

She used as an example a Catholic retreat that’s built on some high ground in Portland Oregon. That was almost 50 years ago.
 
Darran said:
Yea like here, some scotts (a lot being protestant) hold some serious hatred for Catholics. No reason for it, just for bigotrys sake. They do tend to be FARR off on their ideas of Catholicism if you ask them about it. My friend was telling me recently about a chat he had with someone who thought we sacrifice a goat once a year and wouldn’t change his mind about it nomatter what he said.

Ofcourse though, not ALL are like that, but they’re out there unfortunately.
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I’m always worried that me neighbor in the apartment below me will hear the goat bleating and report me to the SPCA or I wont catch all of the blood and some will seep though their ceiling and the jig will be up. So far so good.
 
When I told my best friend I was thinking of becoming Catholic, she said “So you’re going to worship Mary eh?” I sighed and said “You know they don’t worship Mary” (she went to Catholic school as a kid). She said “I know, I was just checking to make sure you knew.”
Just thinking about this still makes me laugh :rotfl:

Someone else asked me “don’t you have to get rid of all your Bibles and only read the Catholic one?” (I have lots of different translations 🙂 ). I told her, no I just add the one with all the books in it to my collection. 😃
 
I had a protestant call me at the parish office where I work - she was talking in a stage whisper (like something out of a bad spy movie)

She asked me if I knew where she could get hold of a CATHOLIC BIBLE, as if they were a rare kind of forbidden contraband. I turns out she was curious about the mysterious “apocryphal” books in the Catholic version of the Bible, a.k.a the ones that were always there from the beginning, but the protestants removed them from their version.

I was soooo tempted to go along with her little conspiracy theory - you know, direct her to an out of the way Catholic book store and have her say “Joe sent me” to the person at the counter. I think she was hugely thrilled at being so naughty.
 
I told him to stop getting his news from the liberal media, he couldn’t help it though, its not his fault. He is originally from missouri. :p:p:p:D:thumbsup:
 
My cousin is a professional stage actress and singer. One time she got an emergency telephone call asking her to fly from her New York home to Boston to perform that night in “Nunsense,” a show which she had done many times. She didn’t have much time, so she decided to get into costume aboard the flight. She boarded the plane in her usual fashionable clothing, and after the plane took off, she went to the restroom, removed her makeup, changed our of her fasionable clothes and into her nun habit costume, and sat back in her seat. The passenger next to her scowled at her and said, “I hope you enjoyed your weekend in New York!”
 
Gamera said:
My cousin is a professional stage actress and singer. One time she got an emergency telephone call asking her to fly from her New York home to Boston to perform that night in “Nunsense,” a show which she had done many times. She didn’t have much time, so she decided to get into costume aboard the flight. She boarded the plane in her usual fashionable clothing, and after the plane took off, she went to the restroom, removed her makeup, changed our of her fasionable clothes and into her nun habit costume, and sat back in her seat. The passenger next to her scowled at her and said, “I hope you enjoyed your weekend in New York!”
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BWAAAAAAAAAA HA-HA-HA-HA! Thank you, you’ve made my day!
 
Gamera said:
My cousin is a professional stage actress and singer. One time she got an emergency telephone call asking her to fly from her New York home to Boston to perform that night in “Nunsense,” a show which she had done many times. She didn’t have much time, so she decided to get into costume aboard the flight. She boarded the plane in her usual fashionable clothing, and after the plane took off, she went to the restroom, removed her makeup, changed our of her fasionable clothes and into her nun habit costume, and sat back in her seat. The passenger next to her scowled at her and said, “I hope you enjoyed your weekend in New York!”
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That’s epic. Thanks for making my day. :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
 
Gamera said:
My cousin is a professional stage actress and singer. One time she got an emergency telephone call asking her to fly from her New York home to Boston to perform that night in “Nunsense,” a show which she had done many times. She didn’t have much time, so she decided to get into costume aboard the flight. She boarded the plane in her usual fashionable clothing, and after the plane took off, she went to the restroom, removed her makeup, changed our of her fasionable clothes and into her nun habit costume, and sat back in her seat. The passenger next to her scowled at her and said, “I hope you enjoyed your weekend in New York!”
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:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Wonderful!

But really serious if we think about it. Imagine the feeling of embarrassment about being judgmental after it was explained. 😉
 
Miriam1947 said:
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Wonderful!

But really serious if we think about it. Imagine the feeling of embarrassment about being judgmental after it was explained. 😉
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Boy, would you believe the explanation? “C’mon, Sister, I understand your shyness, but I will not tell anything to your mother-superior!”
 
Miriam1947 said:
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Wonderful!

But really serious if we think about it. Imagine the feeling of embarrassment about being judgmental after it was explained. 😉
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That isn’t being judgmental in the scriptural sense of the word, I’d be relieved! Pretty funny.
 
Gamera said:
My cousin is a professional stage actress and singer. One time she got an emergency telephone call asking her to fly from her New York home to Boston to perform that night in “Nunsense,” a show which she had done many times. She didn’t have much time, so she decided to get into costume aboard the flight. She boarded the plane in her usual fashionable clothing, and after the plane took off, she went to the restroom, removed her makeup, changed our of her fasionable clothes and into her nun habit costume, and sat back in her seat. The passenger next to her scowled at her and said, “I hope you enjoyed your weekend in New York!”
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:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: That’s hilarious!!

I love this thread so much!! 😃
 
Acerunner said:
My brother told me this one the other day. A Higgs-Boson Particle walks into a catholic church and sits down in front of the altar. The priest walks in and sees the particle just sitting there. After an awkward moment the priest finally asks what the particle is doing sitting there? The particle answers “I’m here for the service. Because without me you can’t have mass.”
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:rotfl::rotfl:

Nice!
 
I used to have an old wooden rosary (not blessed) that I wore around my neck, and one of my aunt’s southern-Baptist friends asked me (in the kindest and most genuine voice possible) if we rub it to get special powers… I almost died :rotfl:
 
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