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[quote=Anonymous]“Serious” Catholics probably would see me as lapsed, but I am way more Catholic than I was in my childhood. We attended mass weekly but my dad was a Protestant and just along for the ride and my mom made it very clear that she didn’t want to be there. I always felt on the outside of things in my parish in spite of being an altar server for years and doing my sacraments, and I felt the same way around the kids in college who went to the Newman center every week.

Now that I’m adult I realize that there are a lot of ways to be Catholic and people running around categorizing people into good Catholics and bad Catholics and lapsed Catholics need to focus on themselves. I belong to a liberal and loving parish, my kids go to an independent Catholic school with a focus on social justice and service, and we don’t go to mass every week. I pray for the intercession of my favorite saints and Mary. No one is going to make me feel bad or less Catholic for that because I own my faith, not the church or a priest or a messed up hierarchy of backwards men. As our (amazing, loving, inclusive, responsible) priest says, god is perfect, man is not, and the Catholic Church was built by men. I’m teaching my kids the same and I hope they feel free to belong to the Catholic faith in the way they choose. That’s the best answer I have for how I personally am handling it. [/quote]

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