What is a Catholic ethos?

[fakename]

I’m just wondering, what a set of norms or assumptions/worldviews or attitudes follow with or precede Catholicism?

For instance, someone would say that Catholicism reminds them of the Holy Roman Empire, or Austria, or about strictness, or about wine, or gentlemanliness, or etc.

And yet I personally also hear that Catholicism is an and/or religion or world outlook so how can one immediately think about such things as the middle ages when one thinks about Catholicism except accidentally?

 

[Bartolome_Casas]

Good question, my friend.

I humbly suggest that there in fact a number of distinct, identifiable Catholic worldviews. The ones I see are:
–Catholics who idealize the Middle Ages of Europe.
–Catholics who idealize the Age of the U.S. Founding Fathers.
–Catholics who idealize the Gilded Age of the U.S.
–Catholics who idealize revolutionary struggles against dictators and oligarchs in Latin America.
–Catholics who idealize the New Deal Era (FDR up to LBJ) of the U.S.
–Catholics who idealize the Catholic Worker Movement (Dorothy Day)
–Catholics who idealize any time prior to the Vatican II Council

If you ever see Catholics from these different Catholic worldview groups discussing Catholic matters, you will immediately see how, though they are all Catholics, they have sharp disagreements about MANY things.