Are practicing Catholics welcome at prominent/traditional Southern colleges?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe it's not as far off as it sounds. I grew up Jewish in a Jewish Catholic AA neighborhood. Maybe poster meant though southern, those 2 schools aren't strictly Protestant /WASP schools, and Catholic students won't be the lone outliers.

Where the heck is that neighborhood ? It sounds cool!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Despite the assurance from our friends in the south, I think a practicing Catholic is going to be more comfortable in the Northeast or Midwest. I'm not suggesting that there will always be problems in the south, but it's more comfortable when you aren't an object of curiosity defined by tired stereotypes.

Sorry, any Catholic would be more comfortable in South Louisiana than Iowa.

Also if OP's 18 year old cares about this 1/10th of the amount that OP does they should probably just stay home.

What schools discussed on DCUM are in Iowa? As a practicing Catholic who has traveled a lot, I can say that Chicago, St. Louis, Madison, Ann Arbor, Boston, Philadelphia are FAR More comfortable than south Louisiana. The KKK (which started as an anti-Catholic group) is still active in South Louisiana.

+1 this

You are an idiot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:South Louisiana is prominently catholic. They have parishes instead of counties, for example. Sheesh. Get your facts straight.

+1 Clearly, more than a few posters on this thread don't understand the history of Louisiana and the background of the early settlers there, as in French and Catholic.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:South Louisiana is prominently catholic. They have parishes instead of counties, for example. Sheesh. Get your facts straight.

+1 Clearly, more than a few posters on this thread don't understand the history of Louisiana and the background of the early settlers there, as in French and Catholic.

And some are so uninformed they don't know the difference between a civil parish and an ecclesiastical parish. Others don't know that the French sold Louisiana to the United States a long time ago. Some don't know that Eunice, LA is about 100 miles (as the crow flys) from New Orleans.

To all those uniformed posters, I'd ask that you refrain from questioning another's life experience until you have walked in their shoes. It's possible many Catholics are comfortable in the Bible Belt circa 2014, but some are not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:South Louisiana is prominently catholic. They have parishes instead of counties, for example. Sheesh. Get your facts straight.

+1 Clearly, more than a few posters on this thread don't understand the history of Louisiana and the background of the early settlers there, as in French and Catholic.

And some are so uninformed they don't know the difference between a civil parish and an ecclesiastical parish. Others don't know that the French sold Louisiana to the United States a long time ago. Some don't know that Eunice, LA is about 100 miles (as the crow flys) from New Orleans.

To all those uniformed posters, I'd ask that you refrain from questioning another's life experience until you have walked in their shoes. It's possible many Catholics are comfortable in the Bible Belt circa 2014, but some are not.

Why are you talking about Eunice? None of the colleges suggested here are there, plus Eunice is at least as Catholic as New Orleans, if not more.

[Anonymous]

Plenty of practicing Catholics all over the South. I am interested in what type of prejudice you experienced.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Plenty of practicing Catholics all over the South. I am interested in what type of prejudice you experienced.

NP. I didn't exactly experience prejudice per se, but it was obvious that Catholics weren't exactly held in high regards. When I responded with "Oh, we go to X Parish" to the age old "where do you go to church?" question (lost count how many times I was asked that) their eyes kind of fell and they answered, "Oh."
Or when my kids were asked "Are you a a Christian?" by other kids and they answered, "Yeah, Catholic", they were told, "Oh, well you're not really Christian then..."

Just little things like that that...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Plenty of practicing Catholics all over the South. I am interested in what type of prejudice you experienced.

NP. I didn't exactly experience prejudice per se, but it was obvious that Catholics weren't exactly held in high regards. When I responded with "Oh, we go to X Parish" to the age old "where do you go to church?" question (lost count how many times I was asked that) their eyes kind of fell and they answered, "Oh."
Or when my kids were asked "Are you a a Christian?" by other kids and they answered, "Yeah, Catholic", they were told, "Oh, well you're not really Christian then..."

Just little things like that that...

6:11 and 11:30 here. Don't know where you lived, and I'm sorry for any comments like those that were made; however, I think education and understanding about various faiths helps us all grow more tolerant and accepting of others. When I was a young Brownie Scout, we held our ceremony to become Girl Scouts in a Catholic youth center instead of one associated with one of the protestant churches because the two Catholic girls in our troop weren't allowed by their priest to even walk into a protestant church building. I also remember that when my grandmother passed away, my best friend told me how sad she was that my grandmother couldn't go to heaven because she was an Episcopalian and not Catholic. There can be misunderstanding all around . . .

[Anonymous]

Tulane is right next to Loyola. You will have no problems in New Orleans or at Tulane. Now if you want a southern school feel, Tulane really is not that southern in terms of student population. It does have great weather during the school year(ie warm) and you get the two days before Ash Wednesday off!

[Anonymous]

So tired of all of the stereotypes and ignorance about the South on this forum. Grew up Catholic in NC, graduated Wake in early 2000s. Was commonly known that there were more Catholics on campus than any other single denomination. This was not a big deal to anyone.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Plenty of practicing Catholics all over the South. I am interested in what type of prejudice you experienced.

NP. I didn't exactly experience prejudice per se, but it was obvious that Catholics weren't exactly held in high regards. When I responded with "Oh, we go to X Parish" to the age old "where do you go to church?" question (lost count how many times I was asked that) their eyes kind of fell and they answered, "Oh."
Or when my kids were asked "Are you a a Christian?" by other kids and they answered, "Yeah, Catholic", they were told, "Oh, well you're not really Christian then..."

Just little things like that that...

Are you really worried about your kid being told "you're not really Christian"? Hello, your "kid" is an adult.

[Anonymous]

Well played OP!

Combining DCUM's two favorite religious groups to hate: Catholics and southern evangelical Christians.

Very slick.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well played OP!

Combining DCUM's two favorite religious groups to hate: Catholics and southern evangelical Christians.

Very slick.

Evangelicals deserve it though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So tired of all of the stereotypes and ignorance about the South on this forum. Grew up Catholic in NC, graduated Wake in early 2000s. Was commonly known that there were more Catholics on campus than any other single denomination. This was not a big deal to anyone.

+1!!

[Anonymous]

My older brother went to Davidson & our cousin went to Chapel Hill. Both were practising Catholics. Neither had any issues whatsoever in regards to their religion.