{"id":27336,"date":"2013-11-05T11:06:08","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T16:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/?p=27336"},"modified":"2016-09-30T16:01:38","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T20:01:38","slug":"how-to-become-an-annoying-catholic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2013\/11\/how-to-become-an-annoying-catholic\/","title":{"rendered":"“How to Become an Annoying Catholic”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Part of it is to \u201csmile and be merry.\u201d (see the meme!) \u00a0But there\u2019s some more great advice from Emily Stimpson at CatholicVote<\/a><\/strong>, who includes this timeless advice: \u201cLove.\u201d<\/p>\n

A snip:<\/p>\n

After writer Andrew Sullivan was diagnosed with AIDS, he was shocked when Pat Buchanan sent him a kind note, saying how very sorry he was to hear the news and promising to remember Andrew in prayer. At that moment, Sullivan came to understand that \u201cLove the sinner, hate the sin\u201d isn\u2019t just a saying for many Christians; it\u2019s a way of life.<\/p>\n

Be that Christian.<\/p>\n

Love everyone. Smile at the clerk in the grocery store. Visit the elderly neighbor up the street. Give to the poor. Talk to the homeless. Call your mom. Babysit your best friend\u2019s kids so she can take a nap. Make a meal for the lesbian at work whose partner just died. Send a note of congratulations to your socialist cousin who just earned his Ph.D. Tell your pro-choice college roommate who\u2019s struggling with infertility that you\u2019re praying for her. Praise the hard work of the gay couple that runs your favorite coffee shop.<\/p>\n

Gay, straight, rich, poor, young, old, liberal, conservative, stranger, family\u2014it doesn\u2019t matter. Do unto others. You know the rest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read it all.<\/a><\/strong> \u00a0It\u2019s a keeper.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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