Are young Catholics Cultural Orphans?

Am I not remembering right, was it tradition, has something changed...I could have sworn that when I was a kid that areas were designated at to which church you attended, depending on where you lived?????

You're remembering right, and most people still adhere to that, but I am not going to remain in that monstrosity where I grew up any more. It wasn't feeding me the way I needed to be fed.

Actually, there's a lot more moving around than we're supposed to have, but around here nobody says anything.

I was wearing a doilie (I guess the real name is a chapel cap).

LOL...funny story, I don't know if you know but I use to be Catholic. I now attend an independent Baptist Church.

Last year we were attending a different church, no one there at that time knew I use to be Catholic. I get a bit irate sometime when I hear Catholics bashed in these churches (really, I do:) and this church seemed to be especially bad about always naming the Catholics to come down on. Anyway, I had contained myself up to this point, but in Sunday School this lady who knew nothing about Catholics started talking in a rather condesending tone about the ladies wearing doilies on their heads. IMO, doilies are table scraves, her comment was " the catholic ladies wear these, I don't know what you call them, doilie thingys on their heads,"

I turned to her and said "those doilie thingys are called hats, catholics were at one time required to wear hats to church"

She said "Oh no, they're these round lacy things that look like doilies,"

I said I know what you are talking about, I was born and raised catholic and they are called HATS!",,there was an audible gasp from the rest then silence. then an OH, well, OK. Then the subject changed. LOL...it was really rather funny. Shortly after that for various reasons we did not make that church our church home:)

Becky

Please remember here, that I am really trying to have a civil discussion. It's so hard at times to ask questions posting because you can't get my tone or expression, and I know you and I have had trouble communicating in the past:) I mean no disrespect.

Why is this any different than a Protestant changing church? It seems that after all these years of posting here I find that argument as one of the bases that Catholics use as why "Protestants" are wrong, because there are so many of them.

Now if you are not attending the church that the catholic church would like for you to attend, in this area are you submitting to the authority of the Catholic Church? I know they can't make a person do anything, but if you are catholic should you not follow their guidlines? Do you think maybe God has you living where you are so you would attend the "bad" catholic church so you could help effect some change?

I am only commenting about this because I have been reading here on the forum about alot of catholics who do not attend the church they should by catholic guidlines because of various reasons,and it seems that when people started picking and choosing where they were going to attend is when so many of the churches got "bad". Clickes formed. And now you have "good" and "bad" according to what side you are on. If the people had not started spliting up and going to where they got what they liked, maybe there would not be so much division. Just a thought from an outsider looking in.

Becky

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