Do catholics have parades like the protestents do?

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savonarola

The Ancient Order of Hibernians, a catholic fraternal order, have a few branches in Northern Ireland and hold marches during the 'season'. These marches have been contentious especially the march through Ballymena. It should be remembered, however, that the AOH are a much smaller organisation than any of the Loyal Orders and hold far fewer parades. They are also a much less significant part of Northern Irish Catholic (or Nationalist) culture than their counterparts in the Loyal Orders on the other side of the divide.

pamela g

they also have hibernian day in august and parades to commemorate the easter rising.

dsoc

I am making an assumption that you are talking about Northern Ireland.

Protestants don't have parades. Loyalists do. The fact is that most Northern Irish Loyalists are protestents. Orange Order parades are political in nature, celebrating events in Irish, and English, history.

Parades to commemorate the (nationalist) Easter Rising are political and not religious.

St. Patrick's Day parades are, again, political and in recent years have become more community based.

In past years there were parades (referred to as processions) by Catholics to commemorate various religious festivals. I don't know if these still take place. They were usually very local and low key.

A minority (of both communities) have used these commemorations to further their own bigoted views and that has been latched onto by the media thereby widening the religious divide in Northern Ireland.

JZD

Years ago catholics used to have Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH) parades but these are now very rare outside the USA. There's no equivilant of the protestant 'Twelfth' July parades by the catholic community.

Booms

Again to say that Patrick's day is not a Catholic holiday - it is a national public holiday celebrating that celebrates Ireland, not Catholocism.

There aren't any parades like the orange parades. There is something called the procession in Cork where catholics walk into the city centre for some reason. It is a very solemn, religious affair though - no bands or anything like up north.The fact that I've lived here all my life and can't explain that better says a lot about it's significance!

My Dose Makes Angels

No. The people who are saying St. Patricks Day parade are being very silly. The parades on St. Patricks are to celebrate Ireland, nothing to do with being Protestant, Catholic, Jewish or anything to do with religion. The parades are a Protestant thing, just like hanging up religious pictures and having statues in your house is a Catholic thing. There are more differences than simply transubstantiation!!

sean f

Came accross this discussion some how and have the following information for those who are interested. The Ancient Order of Hibernians hold parades each year in Ireland North and South. These are Catholic Parades. The main parades are on St. Patricks Day - March 17th and on the Feast of the Assumption - August 15th. In 2007 the main St. Pats Day Parade was held in Cookstown and the main Parade for Aug 15th (also known as Our Ladies Day) will this year be in Derry City. The parades are attended by AOH Divisions from accross Ireland, Scotland and sometimes America. The parades are not political but religious. The AOH also hold a large number of local parades on these days and Church Parades on other days - next one being in Toomebridge - County Antrim - on 27th May. Further information on the AOH can be obtained from the AOH, Board of Erin, 23 Foyle St. Derry, BT48 6AL. The AOH has Divisions accross much of Ireland and also operates in Scotland, Canada, America, Australia and New Zealand. Other Catholic Parades do take place and are organised by various groups including the Irish National Foresters. If you want to see who is parading in Northern Ireland a good reference point is the NI Parades Commission website which can be found at www.paradescommission.org Anyone who wants to parade in Northern Ireland is required by law to submit an application to the Parades Commission. By the way, one reason why you hear so little about AOH parades is because they are not generally contentious and so do not attract attention. The AOH in Ireland holds perhaps a hundred parades each year!! I Hope this is useful. Seanf

barbara b

Not in the same way the Orange men march up in the north. I know people are saying St. Patrick's day parade, but that is for 1 day a year. The parades in Northern Ireland go on in different locations for a good few weeks.
it's a celebration of the victory of William of Orange,

Ray E

St. Patricks day is not just a Catholic parade. Infact St. Patrick was a pagan St. before becoming a Saint in Christian religion, and if the Protestants parade your talking about is the Orange Mens march on 12th of July, this is not a Protestants parade as such, but a parade to "commemorate the victims of Republican violence". So there for it is more political although I'm sure a heavy majority would be Protestant, and I'm sure there would be a few Atheists there.

JIMMY

Odd question. Roman Catholics have been around much longer than Protestants. Their name is derived from "protesting" against the Catholic Church. The Pope was in Brazil. The big festivals Carnival in So. Amer. and Mardi Gras in New Orleans are right before Lent begins. Lent is a Catholic time period before Easter. In that sense all those parades are Catholic. In the movies you also see all those parades in Europe, Mexico, and So. Amer. , where they are carrying that little statue of Mary. Those are all Catholic. Don't know how old you are, but to be honest with you, I didn't realize Protestants had that many parades, based on their religious beliefs?

deburca98

St patrics day parade is not a catholic parade. It is a national day of celebration in the republic that is celebrated by catholics protestants hindus, muslims, ect.
It is celebrated by some northen protestants.
As a southern catholic i think we have hijacked it a bit and we should include our neighbours in the north as a gesture of good will
I think you are confused between protestant and loylast and nationalist and catholic.
The loylast parades are not really concerned with religion, it is their culture the fact that they are protestant is irelevant.
Sorry to any northern loyalists if i am incorrect, please feel free to correct me.

fafandloo

The only one i know of is paddies day.
as for what jimmy above says he needs to look back on his history it was the protestents that brought the catholic religion in many yrs ago.

sean x

Yes they do..Its mostly around Easter.They have bands and they usually march to a memorial to lay wreaths and a few people make speaches and read out a role of honour..the main 1 in Belfast marches to the republican plot in milltown cemetary.

cherub

No apart from St Patricks Day Festive Parade-nothing like the protestant ones. Only orange order and their supporters have those parades anyway and not all protestants.

yayababy :)

i believe st patricks day is a catholic holiday its full of parades all over the world

tony m

Hello,
We catholics have been parading all over the world for a coupl of thousand years now, and every parade since they all began is for one reason only, and that is to profess our faith in our beliefs in the catholic churchs' teachings, and it has never caused me any doubts in my mind, and I have been known to enjoy being in a few parades myself.
St. Patricks day is fairly world wide now and is great fun to get dressed up, and be out there on the streets, being waved at and waving back, walking with my Grandchildren, Oh, it's lovely. and thank god for all these peaceloving parades, at last, we can march down the streets and nobody has a rifle on their shoulder, that's full of bullets, such a wonderful peace, being in a religious parade. Hope this answers you query for you, God Bless....Bye...Tony M

jinx

st, Patrick's day parade and that isn't really soley for catholics more a national bank holiday , then catholics don't have parades like the protestants

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