(OT) Is anyone here a Catholic Priest?

[Dragonblade]

I'm not a baptised Catholic but I pretty much consider myself Catholic. My father is Catholic and all of his side of the family is Catholic.

My father is the one who got me into fantasy by reading me Tolkien's books as bedtime stories when I was young.

Catholicism puts emphasis on faith but also on reason and philosophy. I have never met any Catholic who had a problem with D&D or fantasy.

My mother, who was a rabid conservative Protestant, was convinced I was going to hell when I first took up D&D back in the 80's. But my dad just rolled his eyes whenever she went on a tirade and he would give me back all my books whenever she would try to take them from me.

She's mellowed out a lot in her later years. And doesn't even care about D&D anymore!

 

[s/LaSH]

My dad's an ex-Catholic priest (he's the one who got me into D&D, along with my late mother, by buying me the basic black box set). He's got a degree in theology, if that help. (Oh, and one wall of my bedroom is made out of books, about half of which are theological. If that doesn't impress you, I can say the same for nearly every other room in this house - and we live comfortably.)

Just to chime in, y'know.

 

[Ranger REG]

Born and raised Catholic, even did my stint as altar boy. My priest is cool with it when he found out that I played, even asked me about the game out of curiosity. He didn't play but didn't have anything negative to say about it.

 

[Latency]

I have sent him and email now I just hope he checks it or takes a look at the boards. If any one knows him can you point him here.

Thank you in advance...

If one of the admins could lock this thread, I have made contact with Cheiromancer.

Thank you to all that responded, your advice and words were appreciated.

 

[CrusaderX]

I do not want to hi-jack this thread, but isn't D&D satanic? I'd be therefore surprised that any priest actually plays D&D....

Generally speaking, it's the deeply fundamentalist Protestants who usually label D&D as satanic. Not the Catholics.

Ironically, the more extreme deeply fundamentalist Protestants also label Catholics as satanic, too.

These types of folks are definitely the exceptions, though, and not the rule. Very, very few in the Christian community (regardless of denomination) waste their time worrying about D&D. Unfortunately, the tiny minority who do are the ones who make the most noise.

And I've heard of quite a few priests playing D&D, BTW. But none on this board, as far as I know.

 

[Mistwell]

Catholicism puts emphasis on faith but also on reason and philosophy. I have never met any Catholic who had a problem with D&D or fantasy.

And my best friend was kicked out of Catholic school for writing a paper about D&D. So, now you know of one.

 

[Cheiromancer]

I haven't been lurking this forum much lately. A Christmas present (Civilization III) has been eating up my spare time, and I've been pretty much just lurking the Story hour forum (Sepulchrave has a new update).

But yes, I'm a Roman Catholic priest, and I DM a low-level group. We just finished the Ettin's Riddle.

It's probably best to keep religious discussion out of this forum, though. The risk of things getting inflammatory is very high. My e-mail is available in my profile in case anyone has an urgent (or not-so-urgent) question.

 

[mooby]

I do not want to hi-jack this thread, but isn't D&D satanic? I'd be therefore surprised that any priest actually plays D&D....

not funny.

No, i'm not a priest, but my minister encouraged us to play as children.

 

[Katowice]

I haven't been lurking this forum much lately. A Christmas present (Civilization III) has been eating up my spare time, and I've been pretty much just lurking the Story hour forum (Sepulchrave has a new update).

But yes, I'm a Roman Catholic priest, and I DM a low-level group. We just finished the Ettin's Riddle.

It's probably best to keep religious discussion out of this forum, though. The risk of things getting inflammatory is very high. My e-mail is available in my profile in case anyone has an urgent (or not-so-urgent) question.

Whoa...I'm Catholic, but I've never heard of a Catholic priest who plays D&D. Neat...

What kind of campaigns do you run?

 

[Piratecat]

If one of the admins could lock this thread, I have made contact with Cheiromancer.

Thank you to all that responded, your advice and words were appreciated.

Glad to help.