Catholics have been operating 4,876 orphanages, hospitals, schools, excluding the thousands of churches.....?

Question

for hundreds of years, worldwide! What is your Johnny come lately belief doing to change the world to a better place? (No mean spirit intended)

Answer 1

When my parents won the Lotto in 1993 They gave most of it to build a Catholic orphanage in India.

Since I was about 10 I have volunteered every weekend at the homeless shelters.

When I got married and moved to a different country, my husband and I give regularly to the poor and homeless, sometimes inviting them in to our house for a meal and a nice hot shower while I wash their clothes for them.

Every Friday at the Mosque my husband donates money to those in need.

and, everytime we pass someone askig for money, we always give what we can.

Answer 2

Don't Judge all people by what some of them did.

The catholic priest are not the only one who molested little boys. Muslims in Dubai, Iran and other places do, but you don't hear about it, because unlike the Catholic, they hide it better.

To change the world to a better place! for all of us. Jews, Christians, Muslims etc. all of us had in one way or another did against humanity, and made other people suffer because of each groups goals, all of them. Those Catholics who are operating these place are helping those in need, and what happened in the past, is the past. If we were to make every person pay for the sins of their fore parents, we will never see peace on earth, or one person being kind to another.
Learn from the past, so we will NOT repeat it.

It seems some people would rather look at the negative side of people, and not the good side of them. We all have them, both sides.

Answer 3

Remember when Jesus came to this earth, the Pharisees said something similar. How can he come and change the beliefs that were established how many years ago. Anytime you get new truth that comes from the Bible you should accept it don't reject it like the Pharisees of old. The Catholic church is good in alot of things it does but that doesn't equate the wrong teachings that it professes; like Mary and the priests can forgive sins and the immortality of the soul. These teachings are not Biblical and you can search the Bible for yourself and see - do not follow the traditions of men.

Answer 4

Sadly, as represented by the first answerer, many are not knowledgable of their history. They speak of the inquisition, but know nothing of it. They say that the motives of a madman that believed all races were inferior to the ideal blue eye blonde hair was actually a devout Christian using Jesus as a tool of the Holocaust. Come on!

As G.K. Chesterton rightly proposed, the Catholic Church is a normalcy in an odd world. One calls it too agressive and another calls it too submissive.

Each person who has their own oddities weighs in against the Church on such issues. But it is not the Church which is strange. It is the opinions of the people.

The paradox of the Church is a beautiful one that superficiality cannot appreciate.

Answer 5

catholics have also started the holocaust and inquisition. dont forget the bad outweighs the good in this situation according not just to history but recent events the vatican opus die and many other catholic churches and organizations have their own hidden agendas.

the same goes for protestants who have banned thousands of books that slander them or go agianst thier ideals of right and wrong. Protestants also sanctioned the witchtrials and some other nasty events.

spirituality is an individual thing, not something confined to a book or church or organization. people go to church because they dont know any better or they dont know a way out.

some people help others so they can get converts which makes the church rich. see? not all intentions are pure.

Answer 6

No mean spirit intended would not have described everyone elses belief as "johnny come lately's".
Cindi's last statement was the most correct.
And since when is molesting little boys in confessionals making the world a better place???
WOW!!!

Answer 7

40.000 children starve to death every day and yet you have a citystate full of old men, living in splendor and surrounded by riches, claiming to do god's work ? If there were a god, the heads of the catholic church would be the first to rot in hell.

Inquisition, against birthcontrol (hmm, we really need this poor woman in Sao Paulo to have another child, 9 is not enough), wars (at least 90% of all wars have a religious factor), childabuse, support of Hitler, taking money from the poor to feed a rich church apparatus,.....

Answer 8

Sir, you need to study history outside Catholicism. You will never be taken as a serious person making statements like that. Everyone knows how evil the Catholic church has been, its recorded in history. Denial only shows arrogant pride.

Answer 9

Those Catholic orphanages after WW2 refused to turn over Jewish children. So a noble act during the war (of taking them in to save them from the camps) turned into a despicable act by hiding them so they would be brought up Catholic.

Answer 10

My "Johnny come lately" belief is in the Man Who told us to "love one another", and Who asserted that "by this all men shall know you are My disciples". He also taught us to be...think about this, Father....HUMBLE.

One of the things my belief is doing to try to make the world a better place is to refute any system of religion (ESPECIALLY any so-called "Christian" denomination) that shows this kind of arrogance.

Answer 11

Many people donate time and money to charities, from the Red Cross, United Way, children's groups, etc. Those many also don't insist their religion get the credit for it. That's a tad egostical. Try doing things for others because it's the right thing to do, not because you are trying to make your religion look good, k?