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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Plenty of practicing Catholics all over the South.  I am interested in what type of prejudice you experienced.   [/quote]

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...[/quote]

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 . . .[/quote]

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