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Flaunt the Faith by carrying a card
Topic Started: Friday, 3. February 2012, 21:52 (1,333 Views)
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http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=19754

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Catholics encouraged to carry 'Faith Card'


Parishioners across England and Wales are being invited to carry a card showing that they are Catholic. One million cards will be made available to 24 Catholic dioceses in this new initiative. The credit-card-size resource features on one side, a space for the owner to sign, a statement that the carrier is a Catholic and a list of six things that Catholics are called to do. There is also a sentence that reads: ‘In the event of an emergency, please call a Catholic priest.’ The other side of the card has a quote from Blessed John Henry Newman, focusing on the call to serve and affirming that everyone has a mission.

Bishop Kieran Conry (Arundel and Brighton), Chair of the Bishops’ Department for Evangelisation and Catechesis, said: “We all carry a variety of cards in our purses and wallets which reflect something of our identity and the things that are important to us. The faith card for Catholics aims to offer a daily reminder of what it means to be a follower of Jesus Christ. We can’t summarise the whole of our faith in bullet points, but we hope that the card simply inspires people to do, read and learn more.”

The Bishop added: “The card is also designed to give Catholics confidence to share their faith – often people need help knowing what to say. Faith is a not a private matter. This is something that Pope Benedict reminded the Catholic community in his recent letter announcing a Year of Faith, beginning in October 2012. Carrying a faith card takes courage, it signals to others, every time you use your wallet or purse, that you believe in God, that your life has a purpose, that you are trying to love and serve your neighbour. We hope that Catholics will use it to witness to their faith. If someone asks a question about Catholicism, a starting point could be to show the card and to take it from there.”

The resource is free and will be distributed to diocesan offices during February and March 2012 for local circulation.

Hospitals in the UK no longer ask for the religion of incoming patients, and if a person wishes to see a chaplain while undergoing treatment, churches advise them to ask.
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Surely the request should be bolder and read something like: "In the event of very serious injury or illness please call a Roman Catholic priest"?

Apart from that the idea is a very good one.
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At leadt it gives reporters a new cliche - maybe there will be fewer "devout" and more "card-carrying" Catholics in the news.
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation." Herbert Spencer
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Friday, 3. February 2012, 22:17
Surely the request should be bolder and read something like: "In the event of very serious injury or illness please call a Roman Catholic priest"?

Apart from that the idea is a very good one.
I agree with Derek on that point. Staff in an Accident and Emergency department attending to a newly admitted patient in danger of death will look inside the person's wallet or purse to see if there is something to identify the person to that next of kin can be informed, will glance at the first few lines, see it is "something religious" and move on to looking at other cards, they could easily miss seeing the bottom line, which says in very tiny letters "In the event of emergency please call a Catholic priest". At the scene of a road accident at night in a poorly lit road or unlit country lane, those words would be near impossible to read.

It used to be common for Catholics to carry cards bearing nothing but "In the event of emergency please call a priest".

Nobody is ever rude enough to ask if they can go through my plastic cards, so how do they advertise our faith? People who know me know I am a Catholic, and that if they want to ask questions, they may and I will answer.
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If I were ever to end up in casualty following an accident I think I’d easily be identified as a Catholic. Firstly my rosary is part of my daily dress; I always carry it in my right hand pocket. Another give away would be the brown scapular which never leaves my neck. In my wallet I carry a picture of the Divine Mercy together with a picture of Our Lady of Medjugorje. Even so, in A & E, unless you were able to speak and ask for a priest, I doubt if the medical team would ever consider calling one even though it is obvious their victim is a Catholic.
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Given the number of Catholic nurses that I have found nursing me when I've been in hospital (mostly Irish or Filipino), I'd expect the chances to be quite good.
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Given the number of Catholic nurses that I have found nursing me when I've been in hospital (mostly Irish or Filipino), I'd expect the chances to be quite good

Not all have been so lucky OSB, only last year a nurse was suspended for asking a patient if she could pray for her. Another nurse was also suspended for wearing a cross. Apart from that, most A & E departments are so busy, the priority is to get the patient stabilised, calling a priest is something the next of kin would do or perhaps a nurse if requested to do so.
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Does anybody on here expect a small card with so much text will be noticed by anybody but themselves? We don't ask other people to show us all the plastic cards they are carrying, they are normally treated by others as our very private possessions. Imagine asking somebody "are any of those other than bank or store cards?"
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If a Mormon nurse starting telling me about faith when I was sick, I would probably complain.

No nurse should wear a neck-chain on duty, whether it holds a cross or not.
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Good idea - it would have been unthinkable in the UK only a few years ago.

I will certainly carry one.

Inclusion of some Latin would be nice. :angel:

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When i was recently in hospital for a biopsy the bumpf they gave me to prepare for admission included a checklist which suggested bringing anything pertinent to one's faith, such as a Rosary.

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Saturday, 4. February 2012, 18:33
Good idea - it would have been unthinkable in the UK only a few years ago.

I will certainly carry one.

Inclusion of some Latin would be nice. :angel:

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How about producing you card in the pub?

If we had a choice of slogs the answer to "what is the meaning of

et cum spiritu tuo

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"It's your round mate"




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To include Latin would be like including Japanese! Or are you teasing, Carlo?
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