[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

I have heard over the years from some fellow Catholics stuff like...

If you don’t attend Mass said in Latin, it’s not a legitimate Mass....

Or...here’s another one...if receive Holy Communion in your hand (as opposed to the tongue) you’re not really a Catholic.

Then there are some scriptural and theological differences as well. I know some Catholics who believe that Mary was ALWAYS a virgin, even though the Bible clearly states that she was married to Joseph and that Jesus had brothers and sisters.

[irishjuggler]

I have heard over the years from some fellow Catholics stuff like...
If you don’t attend Mass said in Latin, it’s not a legitimate Mass....
Or...here’s another one...if receive Holy Communion in your hand (as opposed to the tongue) you’re not really a Catholic.

And what about the priests, bishops and cardinals (including a few inside the Vatican) who actually suppress the Traditional Latin Mass? There are FAR MORE prelates trying to hinder the Traditional Latin Mass than vice versa. I doubt that there's a single bishop or cardinal who is actively trying to suppress the Novus Ordo (aka Ordinary Form). So who exactly is guilty of demanding uniformity.

Most TLM attendees don't deny the validity of legitimacy of the Novus Ordo (aka Ordinary Form), but they do believe that the TLM (Extraordinary Form) more fully and completely expresses the Catholic faith. Why deny them the right to that opinion?

Finally, I don't believe that even those who oppose Communion in the Hand as an abuse or a sacrilege or otherwise problematic claim that receiving as such somehow makes one 'not really Catholic' (i.e., effectively invalidates one's baptism).

[NYer]

Then there are some scriptural and theological differences as well. I know some Catholics who believe that Mary was ALWAYS a virgin, even though the Bible clearly states that she was married to Joseph and that Jesus had brothers and sisters.

Because neither Hebrew nor Aramaic (the language spoken by Christ and his disciples) had a special word meaning "cousin," speakers of those languages could use either the word for "brother" or a circumlocution, such as "the son of my uncle." But circumlocutions are clumsy, so the Jews often used "brother." These “brothers” are never once called the children of Mary, although Jesus himself is (John 2:1; Acts 1:14).

Mary was and remained a virgin. See the Protoevangelium of James.

[ebb tide]

If you doubt the Perpetual Virginity of the Blessed Mother, you have apostatized from the Catholic faith

[SkyDancer]

You could also ask “if Yashua spoke Aramaic why is the service in Latin?”

[Ransomed]

“I have heard over the years from some fellow Catholics stuff like...that Mary was ALWAYS a virgin”

I have never heard of a Catholic who didn’t believe Mary was ever virgin. How do they say the part in the Confiteor about ‘Mary ever virgin?’ Just mumble through or skip that line or what?

Freegards

[Salvation]

**If you don’t attend Mass said in Latin, it’s not a legitimate Mass....**

Not true.

[Salvation]

**Or...here’s another one...if receive Holy Communion in your hand (as opposed to the tongue) you’re not really a Catholic.**

Also not true. But you will be much happier in heaven for having received Communion on your tongue.