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[quote=Anonymous]1:39 here.  I am puzzled by the next poster's reaction.  Of course I have developed a personal Catholicism.  You don't spend 13 years with the Dominicans and not develop a spiritual practice and relationship with God and its institution.  I was taught to have a flexible approach to how to practice my faith which is why I am still a Catholic.  Are there core beliefs?  Yes.  But as PP wrote, we each find our own path to God based on our gifts, interests and circumstances.

If Catholics today only receive 26 hours of instruction a year for 4 years (1st, 2nd, 7th and 8th grades), all you are going to learn is a few core concepts and some "rules".

I really do believe that the American Catholic church today is being led by a male hierarchy that has misguidely idealized some notion of 1950s narrow and frozen Catholicism - a church that can never be recreated in a highly mobile, ethnically and economically diverse society which is struggling to find common values as a culture. These leaders reinforce rules and not the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

This lack of "diversity" is not only seen in the current Catholic church, but in the many evangelical churches that exist.  My adult niece who was not raised Catholic has become a fundamentalist Christian and she is happy with the black, white, frozen and Bible-based dogma.  I have a much more difficult and complex faith which does not come with such easy anwers.  Catholicism also evolves.  This is why I love the UCC message:  God is still speaking!  Revelation is not closed and the human-God relationship is not fixed for all time.  The Catholics explain this evolution through the presence of the Holy Spirit, but it gets shortchanged in many classes.

OP:  I do hope you find a faith and a place to enrich your whole family.  Wherever you go, it takes time and effort if you want to embrace it.

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