You know you are a Roman Catholic when

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Ridgerunner said:
When you have dozens of rosary parts that you can’t quite match together, and aren’t sure whether you, yourself, bought those rosaries or inherited them or just what.

When you have dozens of holy cards and don’t know where they came from either.

When you’re not sure whether the palm behind your print of the Sacred Heart is from last Palm Sunday or the year before.
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Yup, that’s all me. If your rosary parts are just spare and can’t fit together, display them in an opening shadow box with your holy medals. It looks really cool hanging on a wall, and you can take them out whenever you need them.

Our lady of Guadalupe, pray for us!
 
You take your temperature every morning and it is not because you are sick

You wonder why women need a urine test to see if they ovulating, when you automatically recognize the signs

You have a little crucifix or cross over the light switch in every room to remind you that Christ is the Light of the World
 
…you jump right out of the shower after just seconds of having gone in, and it’s not because it’s spouting out fire instead of water :eek: it’s because you forgot to take off your scapular! :bigyikes: :o

… you put on your soaking wet scapular back on after your shower (I’m sure it was only a few seconds…10 - 15 tops! how did it get so wet so fast!!! :mad: :p)
 
You have what my mom called Catholic School Syndrome – being scrupulous with every possible resource and supply such as . . .

using both sides of a sheet of paper
saving box tops, caps, tabs, etc. that can be redeemed for points
 
Sean_O_L said:
Why voluntarily call oneself a “Roman” Catholic when the term was added as a perjorative by Anglicans?

Catholic and/or Roman?

CATHOLICS in Australia still suffer from intermittent and inconsistent bigotry at official and semi-official levels, and in the media. The patience of many Catholics is starting to run out, despite the fact that insults have a way of being back-handed compliments, and turning the other cheek is a time-honoured Christian reaction.

Have readers noticed how, in 1988, some ‘friends’ or business acquaintances will self-consciously and at times barely audibly throw in the word Roman when referring to Catholics. They are insulting you and know that they are using a term you reject but they go ahead just the same – and their very hesitancy heightens the discourtesy.

The word ‘Catholic’ as almost everybody knows, means ‘Universal’. ‘Roman’ is an adjective referring to the city or See of Rome, the first city of an ancient Empire, and the capital of modern Italy. To qualify ‘Catholic’ with any adjective is a contradiction in terms.

The custom of doing so arose in the heady times of the reformation when having abandoned the Catholic Church many of the reformers began to doubt their spiritual legitimacy. They saw that they could not very well reject the Nicene Creed and still call themselves Christians. But what were they to make of the statement of belief in the Holy Catholic Church? To deny it would be fatal; and to accept it without qualification was impossible.

So the opponents of Rome came up with the convenient tag ‘Roman’ Catholic to distinguish Catholics in union with the successor of St Peter from other alleged ‘Catholics’ who rejected the authority of the Pope but realised how shaky their claim to be Christian was unless they could, somehow, cluster under the ‘Catholic’ umbrella. The ploy is a familiar one, and Catholics are happy enough to let history be the judge as to the truth of falsity of the claims.

More at jloughnan.tripod.com/rom_cath.htm
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When you know that not all Catholics are Latin Catholics…
 
When a friend’s take on your living room is:

“You can’t swing a dead cat around in there without hitting a religious article of some sort!*”
  • Actual quote from my friend Tim when my Mom asked him:
“How do you like his new place?”
 
When anti-Catholics use bullying as a proselytizing method, you fight against their proselytizing decisively.
 
You know you are a Roman Catholic when…

You see an American Atheist’s sign and feel like you are ready for a fight.
 
Love this thread!

You know you are Catholic when…

…a stranger tells you they have OCD and you blurt out that you’re Carmelite too

…you pick your young son’s name out for when he becomes Pope

…you go into a deli on a Friday during Lent and you question the staff on why they are serving meat, don’t they know it’s Lent

…your dog is named after a saint or should be saint

…someone asks you if you’re Christian, you say no I’m Catholic

…someone asks you if you’re Christian and you wonder if it’s a trick question

…you make the sign of the cross in your mind when your hands are full

…you have multiple Bibles in your house that have never been opened because they are “too nice”.
 
Dawnia said:
Love this thread!

You know you are Catholic when…

…you have multiple Bibles in your house that have never been opened because they are “too nice”.
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Same goes for rosaries…at least when you live in my house.
 
Sorry for the double post, but I just didn’t want to forget this one.

You know you are a Roman Catholic when…

…you take up Latin in hopes of becoming a priest later on in life.
 
Schatzl said:
My dad went to Catholic school and so do I. Even though I’m in the 10th grade and my 9th grade religion teacher ( there’s no one like Sister A.) still intimidates me…
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I think I’ve had Sister A’a aunt for my First Cimmunion class (CCD; She was also the 2nd grade teacher and had just about everyone intimidated, and she was only about four foot ten high!
 
Schatzl said:
You know you are a Roman Catholic when…

You see an American Atheist’s sign and feel like you are ready for a fight.
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Or a Nazi ‘blood flag’ and/or someone wering a dunce-cap-hood and robes that looks like it was made out of a bed sheet/ :eek::eek::D:p
 
Razanir said:
Shouldn’t it be “Yes, I’m Catholic”
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You’d think, but I hear far more of the “No, I’m Catholic”. I questioned it once and got told by a little old lady that Christian and Catholic are not the same thing. 🤷
 
…you have more than one recipe for salmon loaf.

You know you are a product of Catholic Education when…

…no matter how old you are, when you see a nun coming the first thing you do is spit out your gum.
 
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