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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For DH, who grew up very Catholic  (several of his aunts are nuns) it was going to college and becoming sexually active that drove him from being a practicing Catholic. And then when the church abuse scandal broke and he saw the church's reaction, he totally broke from them and really started badmouthing them to anyone who will listen.

In fact, all his siblings left the Catholic church.

Then, after his brother died, DH's parents also stopped going.

We ultimately became Presbyterian.

I don't think there is anything parents can do. The structure and dogna of the Catholics is what drives people away.

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I like the structure and dogma. I don’t like the people. Hard to tell about the lapsed ones who don’t go to church. They are kind of just there and I don’t really consider them anything but culturally or spiritually catholic. But the people I’m really turned off by are the ones actually at church who don’t appear to be on a journey to follow God and are more there to identify as catholic and be on the same team with others against the world. Alsoa turn off are the priests and nuns doing these heinous things. All the kind people who used to be there more for the prayer and the service are aging out. The families are pretty insular and when they do talk I’m usually taken aback by their judgments of others. [/quote]

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