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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m the Jesuit undergrad / Notre Dame grad school poster. [b] When I was an undergrad I’d say 4 out of 5 of my better friends went to Sunday Mass (or Saturday evening Mass in the fine Catholic tradition of “getting it over with” ha ha).[/b][i][u]  Sure they were usually hung over, but they went.  I never did.

No different at Notre Dame, really.  Part of the reason for high attendance is that the school holds Masses everywhere so it’s very easy to go.

This idea that the ND student body wears hair shirts and flagellates itself all day is so silly.  Yes, it’s a Catholic school.  Yes, the majority of its students are Catholic.  Yes, it has a more moderate student body overall than UC-Berkeley.  But it is as mainstream a school as they come.  So long as you are minimally tolerant of religion - as opposed to anti-religion - you’re fine.

My own kids went to UVA.  So far as I can tell, basically UVA is Notre Dame without required religion classes. [/quote]

And this is why ND is better than your Jesuit undergrad....  Sunday NIGHT masses in the dorms at ND, so that you don't waste Saturday evening pre-partying time at church, and you're no longer hung over by the time mass rolls around Sunday night  :lol: 
And it wasn't at all unusual to see kids in pajamas at those Sunday night dorm masses.  About as casual and far from hair shirts as you could get.

But yeah - I have a sibling who went to BC and I went to ND. From the Catholic point of view for your average undergrad, there's really no difference that either of us could detect.[/quote]

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