- Your dream is to one day compete on the Catholic Answers quarterly game
show "So you want to be an apologist" so that you can receive that
$100 gift certificate. - You have a picture of your favorite apologist in your wallet.
- Yours cats are named after Church Fathers.
- You sold everything, bought a van and go from town to town following Fr.
Benedict Groeschel’s speaking engagements. - You have lost sleep trying to determine if Just War theory includes allowing
preemptive attacks. - You bought a satellite dish just to receive EWTN.
- Your mail man got a hernia carrying Crisis, Envoy, This Rock, Lay Witness,
Our Sunday Visitor, First Things, Catholic Dossier, Catholic World Report,
Homiletic and Pastoral Review, Gilbert!, L’Osservatore Romano, National Catholic
Register, Magnificat, and Touchstone to your door each month. - Not only do you have a card in your wallet for emergencies that says "I
am a Catholic, contact a priest", the same wording is also tattooed on
your chest.
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The recent war chatter has reminded me of my childhood – in first grade everybody had bracelets with their name, phone#, etc. (I think I still have mine somewhere – just for old times’ sake.) I was very envious of my Catholic friends because the back side of their bracelets said “I am a Catholic, in case of emergency call a priest, etc…..” I was a Lutheran – my bracelet had the pledge of allegience.
If they start selling those bracelets again, I may buy one for myself too, just to fulfill my childhood wish. (I hope they make them in super-size!)
Can I skip the tattoo? Puh-leez…..
Fun, Jeff.
Ellyn, we had those “dog tags” when I was in school! Our were on a necklace that looked like a light-cord pull. (Nothing on the back though.) The funny thing is though that I’ve long since thrown away the dog tags, but have the necklace. It now holds all of my holy medals (of which I just added four today)! Sigh. I’m certifiably a Catholic nerd. 🙂
When I adopted a cat in 1997 my list of potential names for him closely resembled our list for Davey before he was born. Only saints and Biblical figures received any serious consideration. Dominic was a strong contender; Aloysius was saved for any dog we may have added later. Eventually he was named Simon, providing him with many patrons. Simon of Cyrene who helped carry the Cross was the main one on my mind, although I did comment that if Simey behaved well I would change his name to Peter.
You know you’re a Catholic nerd if you think of Origen every time you hear the expression “Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t.”
Yikes! I got a couple of those. Add one, when you’re reading a non-Catholic blog and someone uses the term Albigensian heresy properly, you’re jealous.
Hmmm..
#4 sounds more like a Catholic groupie than a nerd, and the last one, well, I don’t know what it sounds like…. over at the Nerd blog, it was commented that maybe we could start a blog: “Youknow you need Catholic therapy when…”
Yep – tried and tried calling in on Thursday to get on the Catholic Answers game show! Got me – I’m a nerd!
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