Why do other Churches always bash Catholic Faith

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my daily journey, its sad really but remember its the way they were taught. few really know what the Catholic Church believes and teaches. They hear this or that and think that’s what they believe or teach. They really don’t stop to think about it mostly its what they have heard from others or have been taught. So in the end they really don’t understand.
 
I can love anyone. They can even have my friendship, providing they show respect to Our Lady AND her beloved Son,
AND our Church. I do not believe in ecumenicism, and neither did many of the Saints.
 
mydailyjourney - whenever you hear something like that - always try and use it to your own advantage e.g. We as Catholics confess to a priest - at least we know for sure our sins are forgiven whereas our protestant brothers and sisters do not know for sure whether their sins are forgiven and we should always keep them in our hearts and love them as our brothers and sisters in Christ - they are also Gods sons and daughters.

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Isca said:
Now that I know some cradle Catholics of my own age, I’m surprised when they have no problems going to CofE or other Protestant churches from time to time. It’s something I’ve mused upon.
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I’m not sure that’s the norm. Plenty of Catholics I know would never attend a Protestant service unless it were a wedding, a funeral, or a special interdenominational service. I have been married almost 25 years to a Presbyterian and we dated for 10 years before that, and I have attended exactly one Presbyterian service in all that time, which was my father-in-law’s wake at the funeral home. I have also been to England many times, lived there in college for one semester, and never in all that time attended a C of E service. I even avoid just going into C of E churches to look at them, though I have made an exception from time to time for historic churches or those that used to be Catholic before Henry VIII.

This isn’t out of any hatred for Protestants as I married one, but I really believe that I as a Catholic should not be supporting break-away churches, especially when some of my grands and great-grands were persecuted for their faith.
 
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vz71 said:
You went to a Protestant bible study and their materials did not support Catholic understanding.

I am uncertain why that would be a surprise.
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That wasn’t the problem. I believe what upset her were the needless comparisons to the Catholic Church expressed in a manner to belittle the RCC. And the verbal assault on the Pope probably did not help.
 
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Our church is the biggest (over a billion Catholics, more than any other Christian denomination in the world) and the most connected (the Protestant Churches for the most part made a point of not having a hierarchy), so it’s likely that to other denominations we’d be seen as the biggest threat.

It also doesn’t help that the history of inter-denominational relations in Christianity has until the last few centuries been marked by both sides trying to murder each other.

So unfortunately some narrow-sightedness is still around. Catholic and Protestants need to work together because not doing so isn’t something either group can afford. The world is full of people who undermine Christianity altogether (or even religion as a whole).
 
I think it is important to define what exactly you mean by “anti-Catholic.”

Is merely disagreeing with Catholic doctrines and not being afraid to do so in conversation “anti-Catholic?”
 
TC3033 said:
Just this week the priest that my wife and kids are members at called out to the Parish to remind them that we, the non-Catholics, aren’t equals
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I don’t understand what you are describing here. Could you spell out clearly what this Priest said?
 
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Dozens upon dozens of times I’ve heard
 
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I can honestly say that the Catholic Church is the ONLY church I have attended where others faith traditions were not being bashed from the pulpit.
 
I went through this last night on another thread.
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What was the exact quote? As best I can remember: It was along the lines of: Remembering not to believe that all denominations are equal because that couldn’t be further from the truth, and to do some research yourself to learn what they really teach not just in viewing the actions of their flawed members.
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EricF said:
I can honestly say that the Catholic Church is the ONLY church I have attended where others faith traditions were not being bashed from the pulpit.
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Me too. And I’m being very honest about it too. If anything I’ve always heard that we are all one body in Christ Jesus.
 
I’m confused about this as well. The only thing I can think might normally be in a Bulletin would be a reminder that we cannot invite our non-Catholic attendees at services to join in Holy Communion and that they can, if they wish, come up with arms crossed to get a blessing instead. Or they can choose to just stay seated during Communion as my spouse and numerous other non-Catholic family members of Catholics do when they attend services.

If this was something different, can you please provide details?
 
I know you don’t. I was just responding to your post.

God Bless
 
I always find myself having to kind of apologize for being catholic to protestants and act like I’m not thaaat religious to avoid any bashing. I’m a coward. Recently a guy friend told me to pray to Jesus, and then followed up with ‘oh I forgot you’re catholic, pray to Mary’. Jeez.
 
Homily and other “thoughts” from the priest are always printed in the bulletin.
 
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