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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am the first PP and I understand where second PP is coming from re: the Episcopalians.  I have gone to several Episcopalian services, but I just did not get the same thing out of the services that I do from going to Catholic mass.  I don't think you should feel you have to leave the Church over social issues if that's what feels like home to you.[/quote]

[b]"what feels like home" is not a part of Catholic teachings, though. [/b] Plus you have another issue to deal with -- feeling like a hypocrite.

Sounds like you, and your family, need to get over one feeling or the other to be happy again in the Catholic church.  Talking to currently practicing Catholics might be a way to do this.

Also, it could be that some practicing Catholics feel like hypocrites and "at home" at the same time, without cognitive dissonance, and can give you tips on how to pull it off.[/quote]

And yet for many years the US Catholic church encouraged members to bring lapsed Catholics "home for Christmas."  "Culturally Catholic" is a huge thing. It's hard to be something else if you were raised Catholic. [/quote]

That's really nice -- I hope the priests don't give people the lecture they used to give when they had packed churches only at easter and Christmas -- chiding people for not attending the rest of the year and reminding them that they were living in mortal sin.

With so many lost members, perhaps they are simply gratefully for an occasional full church and the increased offerings that go along with it.[/quote]

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