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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree - as a cultural Irish Catholic, I'm [u][i]puzzled[/i][/u] by anyone who would say that Catholicism is not a culture.  It may not be a culture for everyone, but for this Boston Irish-Catholic, it sure is.[/quote]

I'm not the one who said it's not a culture, because I think it can be, in much the same way that some people self-identify culturally as Jews.  The Italian-Catholic PP is saying that she is Catholic in culture, but I guess I wonder based on her statements what that means.  She says she thinks godparents don't need to be good Catholics.  Transubstantiation is baloney.  She seems to be encouraging questioning of matters of faith (which differ from those rules set forth by the human-led bureacracy that is the Vatican).  Saying "I'm Catholic" and not eating fish on Fridays does not a Catholic make.

I suppose that could be a separate, and interesting (if it didn't get hijacked by Catholic bashers), thread with regard to how a practicing Catholic might define Catholicism as a culture.[/quote]

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