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[quote=Anonymous]Cafeteria line Catholics (as they used to be called around here) are the only sane ones!

My advice:find a group of similarly minded friends and avoid people whose parents still attend daily mass and who'll try to drag you back into the fold.

Don't expect too much change in the hierarchy, BTW; as long as the Pope has cowardly secret meetings with crazy girls who go to jail for not issuing marriage licenses, the church leadership will not be marked by forward thinking.

The rest of us will have to take a wait-and-see attitude while the world spins merrily on.

The difference is that while there is as a PP noted "a well-established community of cultural Jews" the Catholic church has a love-or-leave-'em attitude towards its flock, which is why attendance peaks at around 20% in Europe. If you want to observe Cultural Catholics, just look to the EU: people have moved on with their lives and still enjoy Christmas and Easter, weddings and baptisms and funerals, but get to live a mostly secular life. Guessing by declining church attendance here, we'll all be that way soon, except for those who already are.

If you want some immediate spiritual gratification, stroll the gardens of the Francisan Monastery in N.E. or the campus of CUA and then drop into the Basilica.

Good  luck!

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