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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?  According to Jews, you're not actually Jewish (religiously, anyway), 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 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 by converting as an adult.  So your name and family history are pretty much all that is left, and quite frankly, if you have converted intentionally, then I can't see any reason why you would want to retain any kind of Jewish identity.[/quote]

A Jewish father and a non-Jewish mother are as Jewish as the children of Joseph and Moses.  That's pretty good company.
Does this make sense? No one on your father's side is Jewish or your mother's side except for your mother's mother's mother's mother's mother's mother's mother makes you Jewish but everyone on your father's side and everyone on your mother's side except your mother's mother (even your mother's father and your mother's mother's father) means you're not Jewish.  What is the authority for this rule?
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Reform also rejects this.  One Jewish parent means you are considered Jewish.  Israel requires just one Jewish grandparent.[/quote]

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