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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For Jews who have joined the Catholic Church, but retain their Jewish cultural/ethnic/religious identity, how have you done so? Do you go to mass and synagogue? Do you find yourself welcome in both communities?[/quote]

You can’t be both Catholic and Jewish. [/quote]

You can be Catholic by faith and Jewish by ethnic background. Here are some Jewish converts to Catholics explaining that in their own words: https://chnetwork.org/converts/jewish/[/quote]

But how can a Jew who has joined the Catholic Church retain their religious identity?

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My father was Jewish and my mother is Catholic. I was raised with no religious faith. At 36, did RCIA and became a Catholic. I definitely retain a Jewish cultural and ethnic identify. Plus, I have a VERY Jewish name so everyone thinks I am Jewish in the first place.[/quote]

Are you OP?  [b]According to Jews, you're not actually Jewish (religiously, anyway)[/b], and it's pretty hard to claim any affiliation with the Jewish community when you have actively converted to Catholicism as an adult.  Of course, you ARE Jewish, ethnically, and no one can take that away from you, but there really [b]isn't a community-based group that you can belong to, or any specific things you can participate in which you would not have forfeited[/b] by converting as an adult.  So your name and family history are pretty much [b]all that is left[/b], and quite frankly, if you have converted intentionally, then [b]I can't see any reason why you would want to retain any kind of Jewish identity.[/b][/quote]

Wrong. Extremely and offensively.

A converted/communed-to-Catholic  would be quite welcome in a Secular Jewish organization. Nothing can take away OP's Jewish heritage.  Judaism is not trademarked club with official rules. There are many kinds of Judaism (and many kinds of Christianity, but Roman Catholicism is much more rigid)

This whole thread needs to cool it with the small-minded bigotry.  [/quote]

ummm what Jewish organization would consider someone who converted to Catholicism to be Jewish? People on DCUM have really odd ideas. [/quote]

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