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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So...it's not a question of whether she will feel welcome. It's a question of whether she will feel comfortable as one of the very few religious non Catholics.  For example, will she have other friends who are not Catholic but who are still interested in going to church with her? If not, will she be okay going to church alone or will she want to go to Catholic mass?  [/quote]

OP here. Do kids go to Catholic mass while in college at ND?  What percentage would you guess go on a weekly basis?

I guess it comes down to how many "grew up Catholic" or are social Catholics and how many are truly actively practicing, devout Catholics as college students.  [/quote]

I’m the poster who said it would absolutely be fine, but reading your responses I’m now not sure it really would be.  And not because of your daughter but because of you.

The honest truth is that a “devout protestant“ would probably feel more comfortable at ND than any other top 25 school.  [b]You seem to assume that virtually everyone there is Catholic and every Catholic there is devout. Neither is the case.[/b][/quote]

No, my post literally asked if the Catholics students are by-in-large devout or not.

For example there is a massive spectrum of college students who identify as Presbyterian:  from those whose religious identification does not impact their life at all on a daily basis to those who attend weekly church and find their college friends entirely through Intervarsity or Campus Crusade.  I understand this world because I grew up in it but I'm not at all familiar with impact of Catholicism on a typical Notre Dame student's life.  Or maybe there isn't a typical ND student (which in itself answers my question). [/quote]

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