[Magdalen] Hit and Run Devotion?

[Bob Rea]

On Monday, September 14, 2015 12:40:14 AM Roger Stokes wrote:
> On 13/09/2015 23:44, James Oppenheimer-Crawford wrote:
> > Andrew Greeley did studies showing that RCC members tend to remain RCC no
> > matter what.  They may stop going to church altogether, but they do not
> > stop being RCC. It's as if there's some kind of inoculation they get as a
> > kid which makes it hard for them to "convert" to any other denomination.
> 
> There's a lot of truth in that.  Catholicism absorbed at your mother's
> knee becomes part of your psyche as it affects the whole of your life in
> a similar way to Judaism and Islam nut unlike Anglicanism as generally
> practised.  This is because of the (no meat on Fridays" and the
> requirement for auricular confession among other things.  RC Canon Law
> also states that somebody remains a Catholic unless they leave that
> faith by a definitive act so those who simply lapse are still officially RC.

The Ordination of David Johnson as Bishop of Massachusetts took place in the 
RC Cathedral. There were two elderly ladies in the back saying the rosary.

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