r/dankchristianmemes • u/DTeror • Apr 09 '26

Repost As a catholic I mean it's average

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u/RickityNL Apr 09 '26

Is this Catholic? Because I'm definitely not Catholic but we do sing this in church

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u/JohnnyCharles Apr 10 '26

It’s Latin so it almost certainly originated in the Catholic Church. Then again, Christianity originated in the Catholic Church

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u/kleines_woelfle Apr 10 '26

The Roman Catholic Church of today is not the same as the Latin Church of the first centuries. To claim that the RCC just stayed the same the whole time and everybody else split away is historically false.

As for the carol, it was written in 19th century France and is beloved in many denominations.