cool things about the Catholic Church

The central mystery of the Church is The Holy Trinity.

Vatican City is the world’s smallest independent country.

In a life-or-death emergency, a baptized lay person can baptize another person.

The Knights of Columbus spearheaded the addition of “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance.

Wood must be somehow incorporated into every Station of the Cross.

The calendar that we in the West use today was developed by Pope St. Gregory the Great.

Pope St. Leo the Great met with and turned back Attila the Hun

No longer required to abstain from meat on Fridays, Catholics are nonetheless asked to still give up something o n Fridays.

The Olympic motto was composed by a Dominican priest; it reads, “ Citius, Altius, Fortius, which is Latin for "faster, higher, stronger".

The Big bang theory was proposed by a Jesuit priest.

Going to Confession privately was pioneered by irish clergy.

Freely consensual marriage was championed by the Caholic Church. The university system was begun by the Catholic Church. [ironic]

Technically speaking, each pope succeeds Peter, and not the pope before.

Astronomy was (and still is) heavily promoted by the Catholic Church.

The Mass is the greatest prayer that the Church can offer to God.

Parents are the primary religion teachers of their children.”

Church candles must be made of >51% beeswax (a better and slower-burning wax). None of St. Joseph’s words are recorded in the Bible.

Blessed objects can only be disposed of by burning or burying them.

The Bible is by far the best-selling book of all time.

Last year's Palm-Sunday palms are burnt to make this year’s Ash-Wednesday ashes Latin is still the official language of the Catholic Church.

147 Swiss Guards were killed protecting Pope Clement VII in 1527.

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