How radical can Catholics be in USA society?

Question

Assuming that radical behavior can be part of any belief.

Daver, yes, it is not a specific question, and what I am looking for is how one drives it toward own answer. It may go from "One nation under God..." to some local priest molesting the community.
Perhaps what could appeal to you to understand the question better, is asking how certain catholic groups interpret their religion against others in an expanding sense.

Answer 1

radical enough that they spray painted nazi signs on my pavement because i am jewish. I knew they were catholic because the kids who did it went to my school and I saw them go to church every week.

Answer 2

First off the little nazi pukes that did that are not Catholic even if they go to church. That is similar to saying all Muslims are terrorists for the actions of the insane ones. We are taught to respect the Jews as our elder brothers. Jesus is a Jewish Carpenter.Many of us are actually quite radical. Check out the Catholic Worker Movement. Father Roy Bourgeois also leads protests against the School of the Americas. We also oppose the death penalty which does not go over well with the extreme right.

Answer 3

I think the problem here is that you don't seem to know much about Catholic beliefs, if you have to "assume" their behavior is part of Catholic beliefs.

What sort of behavior do you consider "radical"? If something Catholics do is indeed part of their beliefs and practices, it can hardly be considered radical. It is impossible to tell because you did not provide any examples of what you consider to be "radical" behavior.

Answer 4

I don't believe your belief. There are well Christians and dangerous Christians in each and every denomination. One denomination isn't any higher then the opposite. Just in view that a individual might look to stick out of immoral conduct even as in public, you have no idea what is going on of their properties or of their hearts. The historical past of the Catholic church is a historical past of a institution of persons. It isn't any higher or worse then the persons inside it. That may be real of all different denominations. Protestant historical past isn't higher, simply shorter. And the RCC such a lot mainly has the sins of it is beyond thrown into it is face by way of protestants who think that the Catholic Church is evil. What the ones protestants almost always have didn't do, is to research their possess religion...to understand it's saints and sinners...and to realise that protestantism sprang from catholicism.

Answer 5

I believe that we should be as radical as Jesus, St. Francis, St Joan of Arc... When the situation calls for it. Radicality is a way to deeply to express your faith without violence. Hunger strikes, sit ins, daily Mass...!

Answer 6

so radical that millions of them obnoxiously try to impose their religious opposition to justified homicide on ALL of us through law, thereby trying to abolish the much-need death penalty in violation of the establish clause of the first amendment