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

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peace2u2 said:
Yes, I even had a “catholic” friend who does “protestant” Bible studies say to me that if it wasn’t for the “protestants” we never would have our “own” Bibles, impliying that the Catholic church did not want us to read the Word of God. So ignorant! Whats sad is that she actually believes everything they tell her! Pray for her to have the courage to learn the truth about her Catholic faith and that the Holy Spirit will infuse her with the gift of courage to defend her Catholic faith! Amen.
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Did you tell her that Gutenberg was Catholic? 😃
 
mlz said:
Just had my first anti-Catholic comments made to me since converting a week ago. They commented that Catholic are told by their priests not to read the bible! Such misunderstanding.

mlz
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MaryT777 said:
I’ve heard we don’t read the Bible; but that our priest say we can’t. Gee…
a new one for me.
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A coworker asked me if it was true that Catholics could not pray without a priest.

So we aren’t allowed to read the bible or pray?
 
Bruised_Reed said:
A coworker asked me if it was true that Catholics could not pray without a priest.

So we aren’t allowed to read the bible or pray?
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I’ve heard of a lot of former Catholics (who left the Church years ago) who say that they were taught that they should not read scripture, but should let the priest instruct them in it instead. So this isn’t an ‘out of the blue’ accusation, I don’t think.
 
Two of my good friends are Baptist.

One picked up Fides et Ratio (Faith & Reason) by Pope JPII which I was reading and asked what that language on the front meant. I advised her and she said “yeah, you Catholics use too much reason, you’re way into science and think too much, faith should be just heartfelt” to which I replied “And Baptists use no reason at all???”. 😃
 
I heard a dutch ex-Catholic say they had to buy the pew for 5c a week. What are they talking about?
 
Darryl_B said:
I heard a dutch ex-Catholic say they had to buy the pew for 5c a week. What are they talking about?
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Pew rent was still around in the early 40’s - husband remembers it as being 20 or 25 cents, so the Dutch got off cheap! The idea of pew rent in so ingrained in some people, that a sister-in-law was informed by the parish priest that if she didn’t start giving to the parish, she shouldn’t come to Mass. At the time her husband was out of work. 😦
 
mlz said:
Just had my first anti-Catholic comments made to me since converting a week ago. They commented that Catholic are told by their priests not to read the bible! Such misunderstanding.

mlz
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Many people seem to forget that in the Middle Ages, and for centuries after, literacy was rare so that most people couldn’t have read a Bible if they were given a copy.

Also till the printing press became available all Bibles had to be laboriously hand-copied - and skilled copyists were even more rare than literate people. There just were not enough bibles for every family to have one even if they could read.
 
Doesn’t sound like the intellectual type. I’m sure debates with him were fun.
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Bonnie said:
Pew rent was still around in the early 40’s - husband remembers it as being 20 or 25 cents, so the Dutch got off cheap! The idea of pew rent in so ingrained in some people, that a sister-in-law was informed by the parish priest that if she didn’t start giving to the parish, she shouldn’t come to Mass. At the time her husband was out of work. 😦
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Pew rent was common in Protestant churches too. Even after the practice disappeared, there were certain pews you NEVER approached. If you were a visitor, the usher would direct you to another pew.
 
debbie_h said:
What was this practice of “renting a pew”?
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Just like it looks - a family would rent a particular pew. Churches had free pews in the back. My husband remembers the weekly envelope at his parish had 2 pockets - one for the offering, one for the pew rent.

Caryll Houselander mentioned it in her book “Rockinghorse Caholic,” so I thought it was a British practice. I was shocked when I found out it was done here - and as recently as the 40s!

I’m so glad that practice was stopped!
 
I have heard from an African American lady I knew years ago that “pew renting” or “buying” still happens in African American churches. The emphasis on ‘heard’.
It might have started as a practice for newly built (at the time) churches. A family would pay in advance for a pew.
 
Son_of_Niall said:
I have heard from an African American lady I knew years ago that “pew renting” or “buying” still happens in African American churches. The emphasis on ‘heard’.
It might have started as a practice for newly built (at the time) churches. A family would pay in advance for a pew.
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This may because I was told that the people poor out onto the steps for even daily Mass. Africa is on fire with the Holy Spirit!
 
peace2u2 said:
This may because I was told that the people poor out onto the steps for even daily Mass. Africa is on fire with the Holy Spirit!
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Still it seems quite odd to me that a family would have to pay to have a seat reserved for them in church. What happened to “first come, first serve”. 🤷 😃
 
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JonNC said:
Is that what you Catholics do? Stand to sing, kneel to pray, sit to listen? :rotfl:

Wait… Lutherans do the same thing. 😃

Jon
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Think about it! One gets to hear the Word of God and receive the Precious body and blood of our Lord…and get exercise as well. 👍
 
debbie_h said:
Still it seems quite odd to me that a family would have to pay to have a seat reserved for them in church. What happened to “first come, first serve”. 🤷 😃
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It was also somewhat of a status symbol. Pews closer to the altar meant more prestige.
 
runjohnnyrun said:
At work, someone approached and asked if I was “cat-lick” and then asked - why do you cat-lix worship the whore of babylon?

another time a work acquaintance referred to the Host as - that cookie y’all eat
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What nerve.

Catholics don’t worship the whore.

I’m sure real Christians get what that is really all about.
 
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