Stuff Catholics Like

Since the publication of the Gutenberg Bible using movable type several hundred years ago, Catholics have always seemed on the back end of trends.
Can you name anything that Catholics can claim as their own since, say, the 1600’s? Let’s take a look at the list:

Bible covers. If you are Protestant you can find a cover [...]

Baptism is a ceremony where naked babies are dunked into small pool like fonts then paraded around the church by a priest or deacon so the assembly can see the babies’ naked body parts. This ceremony can be risky as sudden exposure to the cold church air, a plunge into the cold font water, [...]

Give Us A Hand– Catholics Love Relics!
“In Budapest, the procession of the faithful was led by the Holy Right Hand of St. Stephen” was the lead in an article on the basilica there. And no, the Holy Right Hand is not an organization calling itself that. The “Holy Right” is the mummified right hand [...]

Is is not only the Seraphim surrounding our Lord in the Beatific Vision that like saying the word holy as we learn in the Book of Isaiah. Catholics really like saying the word holy also. We talk about the Holy Trinity, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Family, the Holy Cross, Holy Redeemer, the Holy [...]

At the top of the list of stuff that Catholics like is holy water. Holy water is great stuff and unlike bottled water is absolutely free! Now I am not talking about the worst Bad Company album ever titled Holy Water, but water that has been blessed and can be found in any Catholic [...]

Catholics like babies. No, scratch that – Catholics love babies. It’s not that Catholics love babies more than other religious denominations, it’s that they like having as many babies as possible in accordance to the number that God is willing to bestow upon the family. Though the US average of babies per [...]

It’s all over the news tonight, Hillary Clinton was wearing one of those Brazilian Mary bracelets at a campaign stop in Pennsylvania. Everyone is all in uproar - Was it a campaign ploy? Does she actually have some real faith in Christianity? Did an operative of Mother Teresa put it on her wrist without her [...]

Nothing apart from Mass gives Catholics more comfort and causes more spontaneous combustion among Protestants than the Rosary.
While the number of televisions per person in the United States almost boggles the mind, that statistic doesn’t hold a nine day novena candle to the number of Rosaries per Catholic in the US. If you include all [...]

The current process for declaring someone a saint was established by Pope John Paul II in 1983 in the document Divinus Perfectionis Magister. This document continued a process of simplification started by Pope Paul VI during Vatican II.
So how do you get to be a saint?
First, you have to be dead at least for five [...]