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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There’s a lot of discussion online about the difference between cradle Catholics and converts and the difference in just being seeped in the culture of being catholic and converting and trying to learn from a book.

Anybody else following this?

Many explain it much better than I can. As a multigenerational cradle Catholics I feel like it’s finally being explained in a way I never could.

I could see many returning to being more active if we could just connect with more cradle Catholics.

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can you provide some links?  I have not noticed any discussion, though it does interest me.  I am a convert and generally find that I have a lot of trouble connecting with cradle Catholics.  I don't know any of the cultural stuff they know, and they generally lack much real knowledge of theology. [/quote]

The "cultural" stuff is usually just that - cultural, not religious.  It comes from having an Italian, Irish,  Polish, Hispanic or German family.  It doesn't actually come from Catholicism.[/quote]

It’s cultural for sure, but as an Irish Catholic, I can talk to an Italian Catholic and we will share experiences where if I talk to an Italian Protestant, we wouldn’t show those cultural experiences, which is why it’s a Catholic culture not a culture based on where your ancestors are from.[/quote]
Are you talking about Americans with Irish and Italian immigrant ancestry in the 1800s or actual Italians, etc? Those are very different conversations.[/quote]

In my experience, it’s all Italians and Irish, who lived in their countries. Italian and Irish immigrants. And Italian and Irish Americans.

The point wasn’t to debate cradle Catholic versus converts. The question was really about. Was anybody else seeing the conversation and finding it interesting how we all have the same experiences all over the world actually.

It was awesome to hear after so many years all these experiences people had as Catholics that I completely identified with.

And they were all pretty hilarious.

I work with a woman who was raised in India but she went to Catholic school and she and I had so much in common from that experience it was wild.

I also had a coworker who was from West Africa, but moved to England and went to a Catholic school and we were joking about some of the things in common that went on in Catholic school, even though they were in different countries.
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