I went on an Ignatian retreat (9 days of total silence, except for one hour a day with your Spiritual Director) - my Spiritual Director was a Jesuit priest. He played his guitar for me, and we sang together, and he read me Bible stories, and we talked about the meaning of prayer, and what it means to come into a close relationship with Jesus. He also said Mass for me, and heard my Confessions. He was very, very kind to me.
That was unnecessary.
But true!
No it isn’t.
Now that’s some extreme abbreviation.
Is the priest so desperate that the only thing he can say repeatedly is ‘Lord’? 
Ah, but black helicopters are so 1980’s!He wore a black suit, but he drove a very ordinary looking car - I didn’t see a black helicopter anywhere on the whole grounds.
Jesuits now prefer more modern means of transportation and espionage: say, spy cameras hidden inside banners of felt or holy water fonts filled with sand or ordinary-looking jets which are in reality operated by professional liturgical dancers and are equipped inside with glassware, earthenware and jars of cookies and grape juice should the need arise. 
As I've said from time to time, I come from a mixed Catholic-Protestant heritage. As a result I have attended Catholic and Protestant churches, depending on who, what, where, etc. I haven't heard religious prejudice (like I read here) at all from the pulpit. I don't really understand why this thread gives so much attention to nobodys like Chick. Is that his name? It's like digging up Fr. Coughlin (sp?) and presenting him as representative of Catholicism. Or, such persons, baptized Catholics, like Franco or a Mussolini or a Hitler? Would that be helpful or instructive or fair in any way whatsoever?
Yes, many Protestants were fearful of Catholicism because they honestly believed that Catholicism was likely to suppress religious freedom if it ever became dominant. That seemed to be the tenor of - for example - the "Syllabus of Errors" of Pius IX, not so long ago. About 1870 as I recall, when my grandparents were already alive. Vatican II helped change all this, when Catholics were allowed by their church to enter Protestant churches for ecumenical services as well as baptisms, weddings, funerals, etc. That was strictly forbidden less than 50 years ago, until 1963 or so. I am old enough to recall the change. Almost overnight the taboos disappeared and suddenly Catholics and Protestants were singing shared hymns together. Today Catholic missals are full of hymns by Protestant authors. This shows how much they have in common.
There are pockets of anti-Catholicism, especially among strict Protestant fundamentalists who also are anti-most-other-Protestants. Ironically, these are likely to be the same Protestants who have most in common with Catholics on some key social issues. They are most outspoken in their avid opposition to all abortion and gay marriage, and sometimes artificial birth control. Mainline Protestants as well as moderate evangelicals are not anti-Catholic although they disagree with Catholicism on several doctrines or other matters. Conversely, Catholics disagree with them.
Imagine that the Supreme Court had been predominately Catholic since the country was founded and now it was to have no Catholic on it at all. Donohue would be having a fit. Now the Supreme Court, until recent times always overwhelmingly Protestant, will soon have not a single Protestant. How much protesting do you hear from Protestants? Think about it. If anti-Catholicism were rampant you would hear angry screams from all across the country. Six Catholics, three Jews, zero Protestants in a country where the majority still is Protestant.
What I am asking is this: how healthy is it for Catholics to dwell on little bits and pieces of anti-Catholicism that remain in the USA? Catholics have done very well in America with its Protestant majority. Even now about twice as many Americans are Protestant than are Catholic. Protestant anxiety might have increased as its majority has dwindled. Instead, they realize that democracy, freedom of religion, has become deeply rooted in Americans, whether Protestant or Catholic, and that's comforting..
Growing up, I always thought it was the Catholic side that was much more prejudiced. That's the way it seemed. They were the ones who would not attend family gatherings in Protestant churches, while the Protestant relatives were quick to attend Catholic churches. Thank God that his changed. But to focus on Protestant extremists may give Catholics some weird sort of pleasure, but it provides such far-out cranks and crazies with attention they don't merit - and it makes me sick.
God bless Catholics, Protestants and all creatures and creation. May religion become a bridge and not a barrier. Originally Posted by **moondweller** [forums.catholic-questions.org/images/buttons_khaki/viewpost.gif](http://forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?p=5405819#post5405819)
*It's documented history that the majority of the RC priests never read the Scriptures but were merely trained in the traditions of the RCC.Really, I was told that all they really did was practice black magic by bending the laws of reality.Ah, but black helicopters are so 1980’s!
Now you’re getting it!
That’s very good to hear, but ultimately irrelevant. Your argument seems to be that, since you’ve never encountered rabid anti-Catholic sentiments, they therefore don’t exist, or at least aren’t prevalent. Even without commenting on the illogical nature of such a claim (and it is), there are a whole lot of us who have had contrary experiences, and beg to differ.
He has published hundreds of millions of his “Chick Tracts,” many of which are vehemently anti-Catholic and which grossly misrepresent Catholic beliefs and practices, if not outright lying about them. I don’t think that it’s fair to call him a “nobody.” Heck, I still come across some of his tracts sometimes. And, again, just because you’ve never had anyone tell you that the Church believes what Jack Chick thinks that it does, that doesn’t mean that it hasn’t happened to others. I can personally assure you that it does, in fact, happen.
Catholicism was the dominant religion in Europe for well over 1,000 years before Protestants even existed. You do know that, right?
Oh so thats a Jesuit? I had no idea they looked like Keanu Reeves. No wonder they’re so popular.Really, I was told that all they really did was practice black magic by bending the laws of reality.
Well, there is no spoon, after all…Really, I was told that all they really did was practice black magic by bending the laws of reality.
well, 4years ago, my bf and i decided to get married ( who is my husband right now ) and he is not a catholic like me, being a catholic since birth i wanted to get married inside our own church, and finally we went to his church and asked for their blessing for us to marry inside the Catholic church. lots of them sorrounded on me. and they told me that being a catholic iam a kind of person who is living with full of sin, iam drowned in sin. and by the time we got married, my husband would be a sinner like me. i cried in front of them hearing those terrible words, but they kept on talking. they are all telling me that if i wanted to be saved, i should be like them, we went out that room, and promise to myself that i wouldnt be there ever.