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

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Bruised_Reed said:
…and someone asked what church everyone went to. Dun-dun-dun-dah.
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Dun-dun-dun-dunnnnn… LOL! 😃 That can be a conversation killer, depending on the audience.

I recently attended a 70th birthday party for a Seventh Day Adventist friend (I attended that denomination for a couple of years, and when I left she kept in contact with me, and she’s kind, polite but not thrilled about the Catholicism thing :o). As far as I could tell, all of the other guests were also Adventist, and a lot of them remembered me, and they wondered what I had been up to since I left.

I don’t normally tell people that I’ve become a Catholic unless they ask because I don’t want to be unnecessarily offensive. A few people hinted that they hadn’t seen me in a while (translation: “You’re not going to our church, so where ARE you going, or did you become agnostic?”), but I only told the couple of people who actually asked.
One woman, though, kept hinting and hinting and hinting that she would like to know where I was and why I wasn’t Adventist. Things like, “Well I haven’t seen you in weeks! Well, months! Actually, I think its been more like a couple years, hasn’t it! [big smile, pause…]”

I kept waiting for the, ‘So where do you attend church now?,’ but it never came. Finally she confessed that she was surprised that I still lived in the area; she thought that perhaps I had moved away, and that was the reason she hadn’t seen me for a while.

I said, “I became a Catholic.”

She turned around instantly and began to make small-talk with another lady from her church. :D:D:D

(Later, she invited me profusely to start coming to choir practise, in spite of my insistence that I can’t sing.)
 
The husband of one of my best friends loves to pick on me. He has a strange sense of humor. He is an ex-pastor for an Assembly of God church. They have recently been going back. I walked in the house and he said that he’d been trying everyday for the demon of Catholicism to leave me. I’m still not sure if he was joking or not.
 
Originally Posted by CatholicRaven - When you get married, do you have to have sex with the priest on your wedding night to prove that you’re a virgin?
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Sadly, but vaguely, there is a glimmer of truth to this in the sense that 600 to 900 years ago, some of the medieval German principalities were governed by bishops, many of whom were appointed by royal families seeking to keep principalities in their dynastic possession by appointing family members as princes where the principality required that the prince also be the bishop. Common, or at least more common than one would like to think, was a royal privilege in those times associated with weddings known as the ‘right of the first night’ that allowed the leading royal personage to have the first night with the bride. Hence, it wasn’t priests but bishops – and not really bishops per se but rather those who held princely positions during a time of caesar-papism (a form of corruption concerning who appointed the bishops) - almost always concerning corrupt bishops in governing positions through appointments that more reflected the dynastic power-politics of the time than bona fide ecclesial appointments. What makes this relevant was that such practices were a source of humiliation and hostility to the peasant class that early reformers could easily appeal to when hitting the anti-clerical narratives that helped to fuel many of the peasant revolts of the reformation period. One suspects that you may be hearing a distant echo of that practice.
 
We are all extremely close. His wife is like the sister I never had. I’ve known him long enough to know that he has a strange sense of humor. He sometimes has a faulty brain to mouth filter. When I converted earlier this year he sat me down to ask me a number of questions about Catholic doctrine. I was able to explain everything to him using Protestant terms. He admitted that what I said made better sense to him than what he thought we believed. We agreed to disagree about theology.

I did speak to her about 10 mins later. I told her that while I was thrilled that they were going to church again it was going to end badly if he ever made a comment like that again. She was upset about it as well. She had warned him to never, ever tease me about being Catholic. She was very mad at him for not listening to her. I told her that I was willing to discuss what the Church teaches, but that I would not tolerate being belittled. I don’t care if he is joking. It’s not a joking matter to me.

I’m now 100% certain that he was joking. She caught me on FB chat and said that he asked her to get in touch with me to pray about something.
 
My first official CAF post!

I live in an overwhelmingly Baptist area. My all-time favorite was when one of my students, who had just found out I was Catholic, asked “What’s the difference between Catholic and regular?” Yep - I felt pretty high-test!😃
 
Oxford_Cleric said:
My first official CAF post!

I live in an overwhelmingly Baptist area. My all-time favorite was when one of my students, who had just found out I was Catholic, asked “What’s the difference between Catholic and regular?” Yep - I felt pretty high-test!😃
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You coulda said we’re less expensive. 😃
Welcome to CAF.
 
This was told to me by a friend, but back in the 1950s, an order of nuns built a small but much-needed hospital/medical clinic in rural Kentucky; a poverty-stricken part of the state inhabited mostly by Baptists.

The locals were glad to finally have medical care close by, but the preachers warned parents that if they took their children in for treatment, “Don’t turn your back for one minute, or they’ll make your children Catholic without you knowing about it.” :rolleyes:
 
Lost_Sheep said:
This was told to me by a friend, but back in the 1950s, an order of nuns built a small but much-needed hospital/medical clinic in rural Kentucky; a poverty-stricken part of the state inhabited mostly by Baptists.

The locals were glad to finally have medical care close by, but the preachers warned parents that if they took their children in for treatment, “Don’t turn your back for one minute, or they’ll make your children Catholic without you knowing about it.” :rolleyes:
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Hahaha. Lightning conversions, a Catholic special 😛
 
I had a Mormon friend tell me (and my family) that we should get to know about Mother Teresa because she is a great example of Christian charity. When I told him that we did know about her and that she was a Catholic nun, he said it wasn’t true.

I had a Protestant college roommate tell me that I was beneath her because I, as a Catholic, was of the lowly peasant class and that she had always been part of the aristocracy.

I had two Mormon friends often say that I was so lucky to be able to do “anything I wanted to” because then I could just confess my sins to a priest every week and then once again, I was free to do anything I wanted to do.

Our Mormon friends came to our oldest son’s baptism (after getting permission from their bishop) and were very nervous at the ceremony. After the baptism, while still in the church, the wife asked why we would put our son in a dress. (He was wearing a baptismal gown that had been handed down for a couple of generations).
 
lax16 said:
I had a Mormon friend tell me (and my family) that we should get to know about Mother Teresa because she is a great example of Christian charity. When I told him that we did know about her and that she was a Catholic nun, he said it wasn’t true.

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Okay, this wasn’t something done around me but I still feel gobsmacked years after hearing a Protestant preacher on a radio show saying, “just think of what Mother Teresa could have done if she had had the Gospel.” :bigyikes: She lives the Gospel, dude.
 
I once heard about this rumor regarding the Knights of Columbus 3rd degree ceremony: sometime in the middle of the ceremony, and old poor man, dressed in lowly clothing, comes into the meeting hall and interrupts whatever’s going on, and accuses the Priest present about some crime (stealing money from the Church treasury for example). The priest denies it, and then the two get into a fight where the Priest beats the old beggar mercilessly. And if any 2nd degree Knight jumps in to help the beggar or stop the priest, he’s not deemed worthy of the 3rd degree.

Let me assure you, this is not what happens in the KofC
 
Taurks said:
I once heard about this rumor regarding the Knights of Columbus 3rd degree ceremony: sometime in the middle of the ceremony, and old poor man, dressed in lowly clothing, comes into the meeting hall and interrupts whatever’s going on, and accuses the Priest present about some crime (stealing money from the Church treasury for example). The priest denies it, and then the two get into a fight where the Priest beats the old beggar mercilessly. And if any 2nd degree Knight jumps in to help the beggar or stop the priest, he’s not deemed worthy of the 3rd degree.

Let me assure you, this is not what happens in the KofC
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Would be a fun skit though if there are elbow smashes involved!😃
 
TimothyH said:
A little southern girl saw one of the Dominican Sisters who teaches at our parish school in the grocery store. They are from the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia in Nashville, and wear full white habits.

The little girl saw Sister and exclaimed in a perfect southern drawl, “Look mama! It’s Mary!”

-Tim-
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A friend of mine is a Dominican Sister, and the little girl is right, The look and are like Mary.
 
most of the claims i notice :eek:

are claiming that the Sign of the Cross is made backwards and sometimes upside-down with the left or right hand (did not matter to the ones that claimed this practice of Catholics :confused:) 😃

strangly two beliefs about Mary: first that mary is the fourth member of the trinity and secondly that Catholics refuse to ask saints or people to pray for themselves ( probably something to do with hyperbole 😛 which is something they claim to believe in or not too ):ehh::bigyikes:

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Two stories come to mind for me.

Firstly, I was at work one day and we were chatting about what we were dong that evening, I mentioned I was going to Mass, a particular girl said “Oh I didn’t realise you are Catholic, I’m so sorry” with a voice dripping in sarcastic pity. I looked at her and said as sweetly as I could manage “don’t worry, I don’t need your pity, but you might need my prayers” she changed the subject swiftly…

Another I heard recently, I sing with a local choir, we are called The Allsorts (Christians and Friends United) Choir, and its a lovely group to be part of, there are members of the choir from almost every Christian Church and denomination in our area as well as members with no church background. Anyway someone recently stopped coming along and happened to bump into another of the choir members in the local supermarket. She said her son (who is in his 20s) had recently started seeing a new girlfriend and she wasn’t too happy because “she is a Catholic, and after all they aren’t even Christian” she was soon advised of her error, it seems though the reason she has stopped coming along to choir is because of the Catholic membership of the choir, very sad, she is a member of a local independent evangelical church. A church in which women may be seen but not heard in any way, they aren’t even alowed to be a part of the choir!

Oh and in the same choir we were singing some songs from Sister Act (I Will Follow Him is the song we always end with 😃 ) and we had started singing Salve Regina (again the Sister Act version) we suddenly stopped singing it at rehearsals and when I asked the choir mistress why I was told ther had been objections to it from a particular Baptist member of the choir, the same member also objected to us singing Let it Be (by the Beatles!)
 
Chorister1980 said:
Oh and in the same choir we were singing some songs from Sister Act (I Will Follow Him is the song we always end with 😃 ) and we had started singing Salve Regina (again the Sister Act version) we suddenly stopped singing it at rehearsals and when I asked the choir mistress why I was told ther had been objections to it from a particular Baptist member of the choir, the same member also objected to us singing Let it Be (by the Beatles!)
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No doubt because Let It Be contains the line “Mother Mary comes to me.” Thing is, John Lennon was referring to “Mary” as in “Mary Jane” as in marijuana.
 
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