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Post by homeschooldad on Sept 30, 2023 16:46:44 GMT
www.ncregister.com/cna/new-study-almost-two-thirds-of-us-catholics-believe-in-the-real-presenceGranted, two-thirds is better than one-third, and polls can come out differently, depending upon how the questions are asked, but one-third, that's still a problem. I realize that there are some who do not like polls (usually when the results are something other than what they want to believe, and then the response is "you would have to go and individually ask each person"), but they're a good tool for extrapolating into the whole, and I want to know the reality of any situation. Polls help with that.
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Post by theguvnor on Sept 30, 2023 19:18:21 GMT
The most annoying real-life issue I had with this was six or seven years back now. A colleague was killed spraying concrete. He got trapped underneath concrete when a machine went wrong and started splurging out huge bouts of the stuff. By the time anyone pulled him out he it was all over. He was from Spain like many of the people engaged on the project as he came from an area where they do specialist mining. His funeral Mass was very well attended and a collection among workers yielded £30,000 as there were several thousand workers on the project. So that meant until his insurance was paid his family had no immediate financial issues. After his funeral Mass one Catholic fellow worker started making jokes about engaging in the old 'ritual cannibalism'. She got very annoyed with her when I pointed out I found that seriously offensive and why go to Mass with that outlook about it in your mind. She hadn't even realized I was Catholic till that point. Some of the gents working on site who heard it found the joke less than funny as well. Many of the older Spanish and Irish workers were quite devout. Even the younger blokes thought the joke was tasteless.
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Post by homeschooldad on Sept 30, 2023 23:19:27 GMT
The most annoying real-life issue I had with this was six or seven years back now. A colleague was killed spraying concrete. He got trapped underneath concrete when a machine went wrong and started splurging out huge bouts of the stuff. By the time anyone pulled him out he it was all over. He was from Spain like many of the people engaged on the project as he came from an area where they do specialist mining. His funeral Mass was very well attended and a collection among workers yielded £30,000 as there were several thousand workers on the project. So that meant until his insurance was paid his family had no immediate financial issues. After his funeral Mass one Catholic fellow worker started making jokes about engaging in the old 'ritual cannibalism'. She got very annoyed with her when I pointed out I found that seriously offensive and why go to Mass with that outlook about it in your mind. She hadn't even realized I was Catholic till that point. Some of the gents working on site who heard it found the joke less than funny as well. Many of the older Spanish and Irish workers were quite devout. Even the younger blokes thought the joke was tasteless. In all fairness, and I know you know this, but when Our Lord told the people they would eat His Body and drink His Blood, they responded quite understandably, basically "oh, HELL no!" and left Him. (I'm given to understand that many returned to Him and to the nascent Church after His Resurrection, when it became apparent what He was talking about.) If that were today, they'd have Him hauled off to a psychiatric ward. This witch-hunt against people on the autism spectrum is bad enough. In times past, people were allowed to have differences and eccentricities, and society pretty much just rolled with it. Nowadays, be just a little bit different, and you're called out as having something wrong with you. (I am not on the "spectrum", but I've known people who were, and I consider myself an ally.) |
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Post by ralfy on Oct 1, 2023 0:57:14 GMT
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