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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]you can attend any you want, but you can't pick or choose for sacraments. We learned this the hard way when we weren't allowed to be godparents because we weren't tithing to the correct church. We also couldn't get our own babies baptized because we attended the wrong church :(

I will always feel Catholic in my heart, but they clearly didn't want us so we became Episcopalian[/quote]

I've never heard of such a thing. What is the "wrong" Catholic church? Or do you mean you didn't attend a Catholic church and so were not a practicing Catholic?[/quote]

So, the old rule is that people are supposed to attend the church they are "assigned" to.  Meaning geographically in the catchment for.

If you attended mass at a Shrine or somewhere outside of the district it wasn't following the rules or didn't count.  It meant you couldn't choose your own Parish.  I didn't grow up in a diocese that "enforced" this, but apparently some did.[/quote]

Never, ever encountered this in the many places I have lived in CT and in this area. Since childhood, I have rarely attended the parish to which we were "assigned." Everyone is up to date on their sacraments and no issues. 
My three kids were all baptized in three different parishes and only once was it our "home " parish. 
If this is some weird Arlington diocese thing, the posters from there should realize that it is atypical and stop generalizing. 
Actually, my niece received her first communion in a church that was different from their assigned parish in Arlington Diocese. So even there it is not a hard fast rule.
These posters always omit the fact that they are not regularly attending parishioners anywhere.

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