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[quote=Anonymous][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]

If you go to Instagram or TikTok and just search on cradle Catholic, you’ll get a bunch of posts.

Many of the posts are tongue in cheek because that sort of how cradle Catholics talk about religion. It’s literally like being Italian like you can’t explain what it’s like to be Italian. You just are Italian.

Cradle Catholics are from soup to nuts. Every little bit of our life is catholic..

My grandmother would say, Jesus, Mary and Joseph every time something happened. Every time I scrape my knee, they would say offered up as a sacrifice to God. These are just teeny tiny examples of how Catholicism permeated my life.

They also talk about converts really know the “Bible”, but they don’t know Catholicism, which would be the study of the catechism or Cannon Law or understanding Humanea vitae or what happened in Vatican 2 or each iteration of the translation of the Bible like the 1946 translation of the Bible would be something that a cradle Catholic would know but maybe a convert wouldn’t know

They talk about how converts study the Bible, which is something Catholics do not specifically do. We don’t really do Bible study.

Converts often don’t really understand Saints or the role of Mary in the church because they come from religions where they have a personal relationship with God. Or they come from a religion where all you have to do is believe Jesus is your Lord and your savior to be saved and Catholics really have to go through a maze of rules and life choices to get to heaven.
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In my experience, converts know more than cradle catholics because they actually study the religion as adults. [/quote]

That is exactly what the posts are talking about. You understand more about the Bible but less about being catholic.

Like studying a language and have better grammar, but you can’t really go to the community and talk to them.[/quote]

No, converts know more about Catholic theology, not the Bible.

Cradle Catholics who were catechized in the 70s and beyond got very poor education in Catholicism, in general.[/quote]

Exactly we are just taught to live the word not memorize it. It’s not a “poor” education per se it’s different.

Pray, read, memory, quote, proselytism

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