To: InterestedQuestioner
Yeah...I've had that discussion a number of times. Once when I was stationed in Italy, a group of us went to a nearby town, and one of the guys in the group asked people to wait up while he took a photo of "this idol here" - said idol being St. Anthony of Padua. So I asked him about it and got the whole spiel. "Well, you see, Catholics build these idols and pray to them and offer flowers and blah blah blah". I informed him that I *was* Catholic and we did no such thing, and tried to explain it all to him, but was basically dismissed as not knowing my faith. Um...kay.
14 posted on
08/25/2005 4:08:52 PM PDT by
RosieCotton
(A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. - GK Chesterton)
To: RosieCotton
St. Anthony - the Hammer of the Heretics himself!
16 posted on
08/25/2005 4:13:24 PM PDT by
AnAmericanMother
(. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
To: RosieCotton
"Once when I was stationed in Italy, a group of us went to a nearby town, and one of the guys in the group asked people to wait up while he took a photo of "this idol here" - said idol being St. Anthony of Padua."
Nothing like a snapshot of an idol to commemorate your time in Italy!
19 posted on
08/25/2005 4:22:00 PM PDT by
InterestedQuestioner
("Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved.")
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