Also I want to tell everyone that we cradle Catholics utterly reject any kind of Catholic convert, except for your cousin-in-law who did it so your cousin could have a church wedding because we know what Catholic converts are about, which is weirdness
trad caths are a literal heresy and even we bad Catholics know this!
it’s like, listen: real Catholics go to church on Easter and Christmas and we’re Catholics because our parents were, not because we have weird Deus Vult fantasies trad caths are literally Protestants
Yeah. I'm a cradle Catholic who recently decided to switch to Presbyterian. I've never had issues with my super-Catholic family (like, curing diseases with cloth soaked in the blood of a martyr Catholics) but man those converts are a frightening cult in some cases.
LOL. Yes.
I taught RCIA once at a pretty progressive church and one of the wanna-be Catholics started saying that all popes should be beatified if they haven't already and totally didn't understand why the priest, nuns, and I started cracking up.
One of my doctors was a Catholic convert, only went to Latin Mass, and subsequently died of Covid because it “wasn’t a big deal” and felt protected by the rosary in his lab coat pocket 🤦♀️
Ugh! Sometimes I remind my students that Mendel was a priest. And because they're American, they're often surprised that a highly religious person could found modern genetics and evolutionary theory. Which says a lot more about our country than the Catholic church. It's honestly sad.
You’ll enjoy this. I’m cradle Catholic who never got confirmed. So I went into the church as an adult. The deacon helping with my RCIA class was a convert.
So we’re talking about faith/works. And helping people. One of the newbies said “well what if you give a person money and they buy beer?”
The deacon says “well yes that’s concerning.” Priest was there and started to reply. I raised my hand first. Deacon called on me
“If he buys beer, it’s between him and God. Not my job to decide what his journey is.”
“But beer!”
Yes, and I’m not God and we are very much not supposed to do that
