Was Patrick Ever Catholic?

[Patrick]

@PdotdQ

Were you ever Catholic? If so, how is it that you do not know that transubstantiation does not mean that the host literally turns into a 2000 year old Jewish corpse? (as we discussed before, for example in this post Several States Investigating the Catholic Church and this one Several States Investigating the Catholic Church) Perhaps this is not your fault but the fault of whoever you learned the doctrine of transubstantiation from, but this is absolutely basic knowledge for Catholics. So I know the doctrine well and I was really impressed with how you answered my questions about it. Your answers were much more reasoned and mature, probably from a new and more modern way of looking at it.

I grew up in the 1960’s in Catholic School. Masses were in Latin only. I was a friggin’ alter boy for years. Handle the incense cooker during benedictions. Knew my Catholicism inside and out. I was the kind of kid that would ask the nuns if it was a sin if you missed mass on Sunday because you were on a ship that crossed the international dateline? In the 1960s, it was taught that transubstantiation was real and physical. I had to ring the bells at mass at the exact moment that it happened. I was told that only fully ordained priests had this magical power. (I didn’t believe a word of it but I did ring the bells on time.)