General Misunderstandings

On my drive home, I was thinking about some of the misunderstandings in the world in regards to the Church. I listen to Catholic radio alot and when I drive home, a show called "Catholic Answers Live" is always on. It is an appologetics show and that means that it is a show about answering questions and defending the faith ( not an apology for anything). I really love this show in the most dorky way. But what I was noticing is that people have some of the same questions way too frequently. The same misconceptions and misunderstandings are EVERYWHERE. I think that is where I get my desire for what I want to continue to study and do my phd on. When I finnaly get set to teach at a university, I can teach about it and some of the other things I love to study.

There are so many misunderstandings about the Catholic Church. I see the same things all the time; where is this or that in the Bible? What's with purgatory? Why do you worship Mary? What's with confession? This or that about the priesthood. Blah blah blah. The funny thing is that all these ( and so many more ) questions can be so easily answered. I got good at that at Vanderbilt. Going to such an eccumenically diverse school, I was constantly explaining my faith. Plus, I was one of, oh say, 5 Catholics at that Divinity School. Others only wanted to tear down my faith. Perhaps they have an agenda or they don't know how to express themselves, but they always try to pull their " Trump card ". They bust out any scandal or scar on the Church and try to use it to tear it down. Ready for the keywords? Crusades. Pedophelia. Corrupt Popes. Blah blah blah..... the funnier ones say things about the " whore of Babylon" or 666 this or that. It makes me giggle with how ridiculous it is. Most of these fun comments are very not " love your neighbor " type.

I guess what got me thinking was that what I am studying, Mary Magdalene, is one if those topics. She is SO highly misunderstood. She has been marked as the wife of Jesus, a repentant whore, the real leader of the apostles, holder of some dramatic secret or the Holy Trail itself. There are answers to all these things as well, they need a little bit more to explain, but there is such a rich history to her that explains why there was such a large devotion to her. She is wonderful. She is the greatest example for someone to turn their life around. I will spend a lot of time in the future writting about this. ( so I wont do it here )

I guess I'll stop, otherwise I'll start writting my dissertation proposal right here. Bleh.... more later.

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