Why is there so much anti-Catholic websites?

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JeffAustralia:
I hear that the late Fulton Sheen said once there are millions who hate what they THINK the Catholic Church is all about, and that he doubted there’d be more than he could count on one hand who actually understood the Church and still hated it. I’m also a convert, and I still find it frustrating that the Church spends so little time making its TRUE beliefs clear, and not squashing the nonsense especially in the media.
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Bureaucrats are comfortable doing what they are doing. RESULTS are unimportant to bureaucrats… they are into “process”… just doing the same old things.

It doesn’t matter whether it is the government, or a large corporation, or health care, or the postal service, or the military, … or the Church… bureaucrats just want to stay in their offices and cubicles and have their daily coffee and their meetings and agendas and minutes and just keep to their routine.

Which is why, for example, Catholic Answers is so effective in evangelization. It is outside the Church bureaucracy.

Ditto for Mother Theresa or Mother Angelica or Fr. Benedict Groeschel.

[don’t get me started on bureaucracy!!! ]

[on the other hand, you can read my anti-bureaucracy book review on Amazon for “Jawbreaker”… I wrote it on January 1, 2006 using the name “Jersey Al”.]
 
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bjd2006pc:
Hello,
I am very interested in converting to the Catholic Church.

I have been doing a lot of research on the net. However, I have run across many disturbing websites. Many of these websites are very bigoted. In fact, if they attacked anybody else, such as racial minorities, they would have been yanked off the net. But what makes Catholicism such a target. I don’t really know why.

Some of the websites claim Catholicism is a pagan religion. I am a logical person, and that claim makes no sense. So, what some of these fanatics are saying is that Christ, founder of the Church, is a pagan. Whoa, that is a big time fallacy!

I told my inquiry teacher that those who are so filled with hatred towards Catholicism (and other faiths) are not so confident about their own faith.

What are your thoughts? Also, what are some great websites for Catholicism? I have been to ewtn and catholic.org. What are some others?

Thank
Joe
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Why are there so many? Could it be because they don’t want to
hear the Truth, and don’t want others to know the Truth? so, they try to refute the One True Church. They are blinded, and we know who blinds the minds of the unbelievers don’t we? I don’t waste my time on anti-Catholic websites. I have the Truth, and the Truth has set me free.
 
I found a website that I’m not sure is truly Catholic teachings or not. Most I’ve seen is ok but I was looking for the story of Daniel in the lion’s den for my grandson Daniel and came accross an interpretation of the book of Daniel on www.catholicplanet.com by a so called theologen: Ronald L. Conte Jr. He predicts what is going to happen in the world in the next 400 or so years. This includes who will be the next pope and world wars III and IV and the end times. Who can tell me anything about this?
 
Sites run by anti-Catholic people are the best friends the Church has, as they make Catholicism look more appealing by comparison to their silly hate-filled brand of worship. 😃
 
In my estimation, the net has been far more a boon to Catholics than it has been to anti-Catholics. Before the net, anti-Catholics could run their absurd playbook full of misrepresentation and caricature on local/rural Catholics and Catholics might not have the resources to counter it. Now they do and anti-Catholic sites frankly are no more repsectable looking than neo-nazi sites.
 
Alot of people are still angry about St. Bartholomew’s Day.
I am not quite over it myself.
May my ancestor Jacques de Chiel rest in peace.
Driven from Lyon by the St. Bartholomew fiasco.
WP
 
Jesus said “if the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own… Remember the word I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me they will persecute you”(Jn 15:18-20). Then Jesus tells his disciples about the same things that dismay many of those here, and explains how to size this situation up.
By the way I particularly appreciate the way some Protestants here are revolted by such words. I react myself with great distaste when, for example some people use the word “fundamentalist” as a type of swear word.
 
The following does not purport to be a complete answer, but I believe it is part of the answer. Huguenot may disagree, but I think Huguenot would have to admit, if he knows much about the U.S., that in some ways the U.S. has retained the characters of the European “originals” more than Europe has. (Quick example: the way N.Y. Irish are more Irish than the Irish in Ireland.)

In the U.S., at least, it is, to some degree, a matter of definition that almost mandates anti-Catholicism. The term “Protestant” itself contains the following information: “I am a Christian, but I differ in my beliefs from that of the Catholic Church, in ways regarding which you must inquire to find out.” The term contains no more information. Everyone pretty well knows, or thinks he knows, what “Catholic” means. But at least he knows that anything known about the Catholic Church is true for the whole Church.

Therefore, Protestants in the U.S. at least, must necessarily define themselves AGAINST the Catholic Church, at minimum, if they are to define themselves at all. I do think this becomes a habit of mind. A large number of my friends and associates are Protestants. Some are obviously people of sincere faith. Some are pretty indifferent. It has been interesting to me when matters of religion come up, to say the above to them. It is an acknowledgment that their church is derivative. I really don’t know why they keep using the word “Protestant” for that reason. I say Protestantism is derivative because, if you look, for instance, at the doctrines of the General Baptist Church, it is one page. Those of the Southern Baptists are not much more. Yet, if you hand a Protestant a copy of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, there is actually very little he or she would disagree with. Where, then, do they get most of the moral knowledge they have? Some, of course, from the Bible, but the Bible can be interpreted in many ways which is why there are so many Protestant sects. But much, if not most of Protestants’ beliefs just come from the “background” of Western civilization and culture that they really never wonder about very much. That was pretty much constructed by the Catholic Church. If this is realized, then self-definition becomes even more important. Again, if you are “Protest-ant”, you are obligated to “protest” Catholicism if you are to avoid being Catholic. Then you have to say why you do.
 
In my neck of the woods, relations between Catholic and Protestant are generally between good and excellent. 👍

But, I agree with you. I am appalled at the strength of feeling and insult on some of the sites. I often go onto catholic sites to find that some of these extremist groups have posted there under the gies ‘catholic’. It is only after reading some 2000-3000 words one realises one is being insulted. Particularly the 7th Day Adventists and Jehovah Witnesses, who it seems blame us for everything including global warming!

Not least our insistance that Jesus was ‘true man and true God’. Also Catholics [and a lot of Protestants] insist that Jesus as the second person of the Trinity is equal to the Father. We also insist that when He was a man on earth, He was still at the same time the second person of the Trinity.

We also ‘get clobbered’ for our insistance that the Virgin Mary remained so all her life. Our evidence for this is from tradition [and texts not in general circulation] that she was before Jesus, a Concrated Virgin to the Holy Temple. Though she conceived by the Power of God and gave birth, she remained true to her vows of virginity. The JW’s however, insist that is preposterous as they claim to have evidence that she and Joseph had 10-children!!!

But I diversify. a good site I recommend is Catholics United for the Faith. One James Licoudis who is president emiritus. A very good theological perspective. He is a convert from Authodoxy.

Another good site is ‘catholic encylopedia’. Another is catholic community net. That contains Morning, Evening and Night Prayer [from the office]. The office is prayed by religious throughout the catholic [and Anglican] world. On one’s own, it is sometimes nice to pray with others which you can do on this site.

The historical roots of catholicism is Judaism. Not paganism. This sounds like the thinking from the Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code [hoax], which by the way can easily be dismantled in the light of authentic scripture. Pity Dan Brown didn’t read a bible BEFORE writing his book. But then had he, there might not have been a book, then he would have been much poorer. 👍
 
sandmountainsli said:
Alot of people are still angry about St. Bartholomew’s Day.
I am not quite over it myself.
May my ancestor Jacques de Chiel rest in peace.
Driven from Lyon by the St. Bartholomew fiasco.
WP
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Wait about 50 years and you will be over it.
 
Huguenot said:
Sorry, I haven’t got a VCR : I’m still in the Stone Age … 😃
And I don’t think it will be broadcast in France …

And does your post mean that to get closer to God I must necessarily convert to Catholicism ? I don’t see the need of doing so, since there are many Catholic doctrines I don’t agree with …
I think I can get closer to God by keeping reforming my life , even as a Protestant … lol
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But you must agree with Catholic doctrine, other wise you can just go out and start another church like all non-Catholics do. Just because you don’t agree with something (Martin Luther), you cannot disagree otherwise it will cause frustration and trouble. Whatever The Catholic Church says and does is for a reason.
 
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