Quiz: What kind of Catholic are you? - Share your results

[JimR-OCDS]

I'm with you, Antigone.

Maybe if I hadn't said I like churches in the round, it would have been different.

And that's the problem with the questionnaire.

I like traditional and round churches.

I like Gregorian Chant, classical hymns and contemporary.

I do Centering Prayer, LOTHs

If they had an all above option, my results would've been different.


Jim

 

[Fantine]

And that's the problem with the questionnaire.

I like traditional and round churches.

I like Gregorian Chant, classical hymns and contemporary.

I do Centering Prayer, LOTHs

If they had an all above option, my results would've been different.


Jim

Well, I like all of the things you like, Jim. I like round churches for the sense of community and intimacy. I like traditional churches for the architecture and artwork.

I have visited traditional chapels with beautiful architecture and artwork where the pews and altar have been reconfigured in the round--I think that's my favorite.

I like Centering Prayer and Liturgy of the Hours, although I'm not as faithful as you with all the Hours. I try to do Morning and Night.

I like Gregorian Chant--but not at Mass. I am a musician and I like artistically and lyrically good music of any era.

 

[JimR-OCDS]

Well, I like all of the things you like, Jim. I like round churches for the sense of community and intimacy. I like traditional churches for the architecture and artwork.

I have visited traditional chapels with beautiful architecture and artwork where the pews and altar have been reconfigured in the round--I think that's my favorite.

I like Centering Prayer and Liturgy of the Hours, although I'm not as faithful as you with all the Hours. I try to do Morning and Night.

I like Gregorian Chant--but not at Mass. I am a musician and I like artistically and lyrically good music of any era.

In other words, we peg the progressive needle among conservatives.


Jim

 

[Cosmic Charlie]

You Are a Divine Office (Moderately Traditional) Catholic

The Second Vatican Council was much needed, as far as you're concerned, but you see no reason to push the church further in the direction of change, as many progressives urge. You like the dynamic combination of the traditional approach toward doctrine with the opening of the church to the world that Pope John Paul II (your favorite pope) represented. As far as liturgy is concerned, a reverent Mass in the vernacular is your favorite, as is a vernacular hymn with a feeling for the transcendent such as "Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence." When Nicole Kidman returned to her childhood Catholicism and regular Mass attendance, you were thrilled.




I have no clue where that came from. I if I have a favorite Pope it's Pope John

 

[Yoder777]

The progressive will melt away eventually.
We are called to put on a new man - ie thru grace God will change th heart and soul.

Progressives want something impossible. They want to change the unchanging. They want to run the Church and do so democracy style where they chose.

It appears Traditional - which the Church is - is a good one for you. Shows you are 'getting it' somehow.

This is exactly what traditionalists said about Vatican II.

 

[Yoder777]

I have no clue where that came from. I if I have a favorite Pope it's Pope John

He was a great pope. He was a man of the people, a humanitarian who helped to end the Cuban missile crisis, and was responsible for Vatican II.

 

[WarriorAngel]

Traditionalists have a rep that could be construed unfair.

Look, i am getting Vat ll - [never disliked it - i figure God the Holy Spirit leads - so it was for a purpose]
However; on the other hand - 'progressives' are twisting things.

And that's the problem...too many 'progressives' within - who possibly are misusing and misunderstanding Vat ll.

 

[Yoder777]

Traditionalists have a rep that could be construed unfair.

Look, i am getting Vat ll - [never disliked it - i figure God the Holy Spirit leads - so it was for a purpose]
However; on the other hand - 'progressives' are twisting things.

And that's the problem...too many 'progressives' within - who possibly are misusing and misunderstanding Vat ll.

Could you please name some of them? Hans Kung is often accused of taking the teachings of Vatican II too far, even though he was intimately involved in the proceedings of Vatican II.

 

[AMDG]

Could you please name some of them? Hans Kung is often accused of taking the teachings of Vatican II too far, even though he was intimately involved in the proceedings of Vatican II.

Not Warrior (obviously) but you named one--with his Created Grace. There was talk that that wasn't quite Catholic teaching.

And there's the "Spirit of Vatican II" which isn't at all what Vatican II said--Latin was never supposed to be completely gone, nor were statues and altar rails supposed to be gone, and Chant and the organ was supposed to be "pride of place" and more. (Fr. Groeschel says that if he ever sees the "Spirit of Vatican II", he's going to drive a stake through it! )

 

[Standing_Ultraviolet]

I got daily rosary (very traditional) Catholic, but...yeah. This really isn't the best questionnaire. Some of the questions are drastic oversimplifications (the "following Church law or striving for personal holiness" question), some have no right answer (the question about whether pro-abortion politicians should be "proclaimed excommunicated and denied communion" or "given communion while being rebuked" expresses a fundamental misunderstanding about canon law, since it can be appropriate for a priest to deny communion to a non-excommunicant), and the fact that agreeing with Church doctrine gets a "very traditional" rating on questions about abortion and sexuality is disturbing.

 

[cathoaholicliz]

I got
Daily Rosary

But I do not say the rosary every single day and I am with a lot of the posters who said that the quiz was too rigid

 

[Elysium]

lol it says im moderately traditional
kind of funny
since i dont really practice right now bc i am so deep in doubt and insecurity
but yeah when i practice im pretty traditional

 

[Martinius]

This is my result:

You Are an Ignatian Exercises (Moderately Progressive) Catholic

You love the church, but you'd like to see some changes in certain areas--birth control, divorce, the role of women--where official teaching seems disconnected from contemporary experience. You find the new vernacular liturgy, forms of prayer (such as adapting the age-old Ignatian Exercises for the laity), and devotions that arose in the wake of the Second Vatican Council much more relevant to your own spirituality than the old. Your favorite hymn is probably a contemporary standard such as "On Eagle's Wings." It goes without saying that your favorite pope is John XXIII, the pope of Vatican II. You admire examples of sanctity that seem relevant to our time, such as Dorothy Day. You loved the movie "The Mission," because it reflected a Christian concern for the marginalized that was squelched by the institutional church.


It is fairly accurate, although I too would have checked more than one choice for some questions, or even held a view that was not quite the same as any of the four given. But overall it is a good description.

No surprise.

 

[Fantine]

(Fr. Groeschel says that if he ever sees the "Spirit of Vatican II", he's going to drive a stake through it! )

Fr. Groeschel also said that 9/11 occurred because abortion is legal in America.

The Cross at Ground Zero: Benedict J. Groeschel: 9781931709309: Amazon.com: Books

I cannot fathom the evil of exploiting the suffering and tragedy of 9/11--incorrectly, mind you--to promote your own individual agenda.

Exploitative, manipulative = Fr. Groeschel.

I hated that book....got it used and got rid of it quickly.

 

[AvilaSurfer]

I thought we were supposed to be taking a quiz and giving results.

 

[Fantine]

And I gave my results earlier. I was commenting on a topic AMDG introduced.

 

[AMDG]

And I gave my results earlier. I was commenting on a topic AMDG introduced.

And I was not introducing any topic. I was simply answering a question.

Oh, and I gave my results earlier too.

 

[Yoder777]

Not Warrior (obviously) but you named one--with his Created Grace. There was talk that that wasn't quite Catholic teaching.

And there's the "Spirit of Vatican II" which isn't at all what Vatican II said--Latin was never supposed to be completely gone, nor were statues and altar rails supposed to be gone, and Chant and the organ was supposed to be "pride of place" and more. (Fr. Groeschel says that if he ever sees the "Spirit of Vatican II", he's going to drive a stake through it! )

...and we all know how Fr. Groeschel ended up. Hans Kung is a much more important theologian than he's given credit for.

 

[Yoder777]

lol it says im moderately traditional
kind of funny
since i dont really practice right now bc i am so deep in doubt and insecurity
but yeah when i practice im pretty traditional

I recently returned to the Catholic faith and I still have serious doubts. Doubt really is a part of faith, especially if you are doubting the people who claim to represent God and yet have failed Him so many times.

 

[Fantine]

I have found it interesting that, at least around here, the mainline Protestant churches, theologically quite liberal, have very traditional services.

The best organists in town are in these churches, and the attendees love their stained glass windows and their SATB choirs and the solemn way their priests, both male and female, hold worship services. I have been to a number of funerals at these churches as well as some ecumenical services.

On the other hand, the fundamentalist churches have their big screen slide shows and praise and worship bands, electronically enhanced, and their TV services.

I'm trying to figure it out, because it's not what most people expect--that traditional worship and theological liberalism often go hand in hand. Or that praise and worship big-screen services go along with fundamentalism.