What has been the most difficult opposition you've personally face as a Catholic?

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For me personally it has been having people who I thought were my friends not want to be friends with me anymore because they realized I was serious about being Catholic, either atheists or Protestant groups that thought Catholicism is evil or something.
How about you?
 
I’m a cradle Catholic, though I became agnostic/atheist for a good chunk of life after high school before returning to the Faith.

At best I got some eye-rolling, at worst I was mocked and ridiculed, even called “fake” and a “hypocrite” from a a long time friend who was a rabid atheist. Nice selection of friends huh?
 
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It was the utter look of disgust from the local Baptist minister.
 
Just when events come around when i’'ll decline due to the Catholic faith, and then be called a “bigot”. and there are enough of those times that come up.
 
Father asked me to be our representative to the local ministerial alliance meetings. I politely declined. That had “Nope” written all over it.
 
For me it’s been trying to balance my own sinful behavior and remaining an active Catholic. A lot of times I just think “I am so lost, I might as well give up. God could never forgive me.”
 
For me it’s been my own sinful self who loves the world too much and, when I was younger, was different from my Catholic peers and didn’t fit in with the standard expectations for either a “traditional” Catholic or a “progressive” Catholic. I would say that’s been 85 percent of my challenge. The other 15 percent has to do with the places where me and the Church differ on some things. That’s pretty small compared to the 85 percent.
 
Talking with relatives who are Catholic, but disagree with Church teachings on sexual morality, saying that because of the abuse scandal the Church no longer has grounds to enforce these teachings. It is almost impossible to explain that the faith, and revelation from God, does not change just because of the actions of sinful men within the Church.
 
My mothers disapproval. Hasn’t been to a mass once with me, since I converted to Catholic and that was in 2012! Lol … I feel there is a lot of seperation and different types of Catholics, within Catholicism, a lot of them really aren’t Catholic at all and they say they are. I don’t really want to associate with anyone that says they are Catholic that doesn’t attend mass every week, is having premarital sex, using the pill while not even married and also any female that has gotten an abortion. I am a bit more dedicated to the religion than anyone I knew.
 
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The last guy that had the job hated it. It is an unfriendly environment towards Catholicism. I view ecumenism as “nice to have”, but given the dynamics of that particular group, no thanks. There is a reason Father doesn’t do it himself.
 
The most resistance I’ve had has come from myself. Not wanting to fully submit to God’s will, being obstinate, spending a good part of my adult life away from the Church… I’ve been my own worst enemy.
 
As Dirty Harry said, a man’s got to know his limitations.

Ecumenism isn’t for everybody. If you send me to ecume with Presbyterians, Baptists or Methodists, I can probably do it. Send me to ecume with the C of E or the Episcopalians and I think you would really rather prefer to send someone else.
 
they stopped respecting you it sounds like, so just pray for them.
 
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As Dirty Harry said, a man’s got to know his limitations.

Ecumenism isn’t for everybody. If you send me to ecume with Presbyterians, Baptists or Methodists, I can probably do it. Send me to ecume with the C of E or the Episcopalians and I think you would really rather prefer to send someone else.
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Yeah more often than not they will be trying to “convert” you because they don’t think Catholics actually are Christian…Some friends I had in college used to go to Catholic majority countries to try to convert them from Catholicism out of their hatred for organized religion
 
I have had family members who were those three religions and I can handle it. I also think their churches were founded on actual doctrinal differences as opposed to some King looking for political and economic advantages.
 
There may come a time when they have conversions, and will then understand.
 
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