The OP didn’t ask if they should be allowed to wear such “fashion”. They asked if this new “fashion” bothers any one else besides the OP.
)? If you are doing that for St. Peter, I would think that drawing that kind of attention to yourself would immodest, at best.And yet kids are routinely forbidden from wearing pro-life tshirts, as those are considered “disruptive”, but Satanic clothing is protected by the 1st amendment? We really are in bizarro world now.
, doesn’t mean we’re not good, orthodox Catholics.I’m totally not denying that it’s for St. Peter, I’m just saying it still creeps me out, due to horror movies depicting it!
I grew up in the 70s and 80s, and had never seen or heard of a St. Peter cross. Still, if someone were wearing one, I would have asked about it, and accepted that explanation. I’m assuming you grew up Catholic, aspirant? If you did, and hung out in typical “Catholic circles”, then I’m sure no one would have thought anything of it. Nowadays (yep, showing my age), with all the anti-Catholic (and general anti-Christian) rhetoric, I can’t see how a public school kid (since obviously a Catholic school kid would be wearing a uniform) would be dressed in clothes with inverted crosses to honor St. Peter. You want to show off your Catholicism, wouldn’t you just wear a regular crucifix necklace, perhaps a Catholic tshirt (the kind you find at youth events like Stuebenville or Catholic stores). Even a St. Peter necklace, if you really have a strong devotion to him (and I LOVE St. Peter, he’s my favorite apostle, and I named my son after him) . But a pair of pants with inverted crosses all over them, in this day and age (I’m shaking my cane now
In Christ,
Ellen
We must remember that in wearing the Petrine Cross, we remember Peter, not just for fashion.I just took a closer look at those images. I’m pretty sure (someone can correct me if I’m wrong) that St. Peter wasn’t crucified on a pink leopard print cross. That bottom cannot possibly be a symbol of St. Peter. I’m also pretty sure he never said “Believe in yourself” (considering he died for believing in Christ!), so that nixes the 2nd shirt as being for him, too. I’ll give you the top one, although I still think it’s in poor taste (honoring St. Peter by wearing leggings?).
And just because some of us don’t like this apparently St. Peter honoring Catholic fashion trend
In Christ,
Ellen
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Another thing I find offensive is girls wearing a rosary as a necklace. O well, youth - they will grow out of it! I hope tattoos and piercings are gradually going out of style - they are the absolute worst.Call me silly…but wearing a symbol on one’s clothes don’t have much to do with human sacrifice or “immoral practices”…we not discussing fornication, adultry, beastiality, human sacrifce, torture or murder…a symbol worn on a pair of pants or a shirt.
But hey…I’m not Catholic so such things might be beyond my ability to “connect”.I know what you mean, and anyone who names their child Damien is kind of asking for it. Also naming a girl Desiree is a bad idea.
You said “if it’s satanic, then its fine”. Well, no, it’s ultimately not fine. And of course we can’t stop anyone from wearing a shirt, but that doesn’t make it all-right. Such a symbol stands for something very wrong.Call me silly…but wearing a symbol on one’s clothes don’t have much to do with human sacrifice or “immoral practices”…we not discussing fornication, adultry, beastiality, human sacrifce, torture or murder…a symbol worn on a pair of pants or a shirt.
Then let’s take it back! Anytime you see someone wearing an upside-down cross, tell the person how glad you are that they are witnessing to the martyrdom of St. Peter. If the response is a puzzled look or “wha?”, tell them about the tradition of St. Peter being crucified upside-down & that he was our first Pope. Don’t even MENTION satanism - that does not need any publicity.
Yes, you’re right… As I said, some horror movies scare people and turn their backs against the Holy Roman Catholic Church. Like the family who watched a movie with a upside down cross, and saw John Paul II sitting with a Petrine Cross, they ALL coverted into protestantism. And believing that Catholicism is the Anti-Christ. We need Cathecists!! and parents who will teach their youngs with the TRUTH.
Some people like me, thinks that watching scary movies are good because when they are scared, the ones who usually did not pray, when scared begins to pray for protection. LOL…Sometimes my mind will start to wander when I’m trying to fall asleep and I’ll start thinking about scary movies, and then I do start to pray the rosary, because otherwise I’d never go to sleep (or be able to look at the wall where my crucifix hangs. Totally crazy and irrational, I know!).Yes, you’re right… As I said, some horror movies scare people and turn their backs against the Holy Roman Catholic Church. Like the family who watched a movie with a upside down cross, and saw John Paul II sitting with a Petrine Cross, they ALL coverted into protestantism. And believing that Catholicism is the Anti-Christ. We need Cathecists!! and parents who will teach their youngs with the TRUTH.
That movie scares me, when I watched it, I can’t sleep,
No, I didn’t grow up Catholic. Didn’t know that many Catholics, to be honest. Catholics are not the only people who love St. Peter.
And yet: Been there, done that. It wasn’t printed, though. It was a pendant on a chain.