You completely misunderstand my point. It is well known that the American Catholic Church was built by poor immigrants. It isn't the poverty that's the point. It's the whole deal (poor white rural southern etc.).
American Catholics are culturally northern urban liberals who look down on the rural South (and rural America in general). Then there's the fact that American Catholics consider themselves a persecuted minority group and have the strange idea that every single rural American Protestant is Oliver Cromwell.
Moreover Catholics, like the rest of chr*stendom, consider America's rural Protestant culture to be an embarrassment to chr*stianity because of its simple faith in the facticity of the Bible. Please try to understand why it is grating that people who consider the Bible to be mythology insist that a man who died in 1968 was regularly in two places at once.
American Catholics are culturally northern urban liberals who look down on the rural South (and rural America in general).
Sweeping generalization #2:
Then there's the fact that American Catholics consider themselves a persecuted minority group and have the strange idea that every single rural American Protestant is Oliver Cromwell.
Bigoted much?
Today I am in much less of a saucy mood so first let me apologize for my attitude yesterday. Now to your points.
My father’s family is full of poor white southern people. Half of them Catholic. Not a single one has ever relayed a story such as yours. Everyone has been accepted in a parish. If your experience is different, perhaps you should have found another parish.
Even to my parents doing their time in LA while my dad was in the service, Never did my parents have a bad experience in a Catholic Church. Blaming the Church for the problems in a parish will get you know where.
To state that American Catholic are culturally urban liberals is a silly statement. We were in an extremely conservative Polish parish in my childhood. Now I am in a Slovak parish that is so well known for it’s conservative values, it was mentioned on EWTN. In fact, when one considers some of the more well known Catholics (ie Laura Ingraham, Bill Bennett etc.) I would say that we are a mix politically, as are most religions.
I’m sorry that you and your mother had a bad experience in a parish. To then paint us with a broad brush is the same kind of attitude that you got from the Catholics you encountered.
Remember, if Our Lord wants you humble, He will humiliate you. You were given a fine lesson. What did you learn from it?
what Catholics think the Bible is mythology? If they do not believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of the Living God, in the Holy Trinity, the Virgin Birth, etc-—they aren’t really Catholics. They may go to a Catholic Church, but they don’t really believe the essentials of the faith.
And you don’t seem to realize that not all Protestants have the same views of scriptures, and many of them look on the Bible as mythology.
And evidence for miracles associated with Padre Pio is far too strong to ignore.