They talked about raising their family to be modest and their daughters very clearly portrayed what goes with the term. But it was lower case plain not upper case Plain. It was a family conviction, not a movement, as far as I could tell. They went against what I thought I knew of Catholics, but we enjoyed visiting with them. But I doubt very much that it was anything official. We met them at a convention because they were homeschoolers and we went to a convention in Toronto in a large Catholic center because they wanted us to represent Rod and Staff there. At that point some Catholic schools used the Rod and Staff first and second grade curriculum, or parts of it. So we met other Catholics at those conventions. But other than this family, I don't remember anyone that was necessarily nonconformed. They were dressed tastefully, etc. But this one family even wore head covering as I recall.Bootstrap wrote:I don't want that either, of course. I'm trying to find the balance. And for me, finding that balance is hard.lesterb wrote:That would be the opposite extreme, I suppose. But I think that most people on the board feel that you have been running a vendetta against Max, at least at times. He can hardly make a statement without you jumping on him.Bootstrap wrote:... It sounds like you are implying that I should mention, once, that I can't find any evidence that Plain Catholics exist, then leave it.
Along with that, I should say that there is reason for some of your concerns. But you've given those challenges so often that it tends to get just as tiresome as Max's constant insistence that the there are "Anabaptist" Catholics.
Did they call themselves plain Catholics? Can you say more?lesterb wrote:I've met plain Catholics, but they weren't part of anything like Max talks about.
It's been 20 years ago so my memory probably shouldn't be trusted totally. I could also note that it seemed more like a mother and daughters thing. The father wasn't along normally, even though they often had a stand at the conventions where they sold smaller items that they made as a family. But the father was at the convention they sponsored, and didn't appear any different from other Catholics.
I did get an email from a family in Drayton Valley, AB that Max had gotten me in contact with. But we didn't really stay in touch. I had no problem with what they said, but didn't really get to know them. They were younger, but I didn't follow through like I probably should have. Drayton Valley is too far to just run up there on a whim, or I would have probably gone to see them.