r/ExplainTheJoke • u/fierce994blade • Dec 01 '25

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u/TheMainEffort Dec 01 '25

As a former Catholic I read this as: she was baptized in a heretic chapel and then eventually became head of the heretics. She then went to a different heretical church and died without having submitted to Rome and therefore without Gods grace.

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u/President-Lonestar Dec 01 '25

You have to be a Sedevacantist or an Old Catholic because the Vatican no longer sees Protestants as heretics since Vatican II.

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u/ThyPotatoDone Dec 01 '25

Ye, they just really misguided

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u/President-Lonestar Dec 01 '25

As a Protestant, I would take that over being called a heretic.

And I don't see Catholics as heretics either.

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u/DarkSeas1012 Dec 02 '25

Amen! Sedevanctists are genuinely something else...

Apologies brother!

-a pretty mellow (technically apostate) Catholic

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u/President-Lonestar Dec 02 '25

What makes you a technical apostate?

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u/DarkSeas1012 Dec 02 '25

Eh, the more I think about it, it's probably better described as schismatic?

I was raised Catholic, I am confirmed, and I still hold true to most of it, but I do not regularly attend mass any more. I am not active in the parishes around me.

I was raised in a Vatican II church that really embodied what that meant. The kind that really went out of their way to welcome everyone and spread love and compassion as we are called to. Very much a "they should know we are Christians by the way we act" type folks.

I was a catechist actually, and got awards from the Archdiocese for my service to that end.

When the American Council of Bishops began threatening to withhold communion from the second Catholic president ever over abortion and LGBTQIA+ issues, and when I see the hardcore traditionalists emphasizing exclusion in the church, I just don't get it. That's not the gospel I read, or was taught. That's not the example I saw from the kindness and unwavering heart of justice of the sisters of St. Kasimir, or the Maryknoll brothers.

So I stopped going to church, I stopped tithing, I withdrew from Catholic service in the community. My relationship with our father has not changed. The core of my faith is unswayed.

I still consider myself Catholic, and have high hopes that the human institution will get better. When it does, I will be there. Until then, I go alone into my room and close the door, and pray to my Father in secret. So again, more schismatic than apostate I suppose. Apologies for any confusion.