[Magdalen] Hit and Run Devotion?

[Lynn Ronkainen]

Jim O> 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.>>>>>>>>>>>>
>


Well, from the age of 6 when they started talking about sin (in my 
generation - educated in '50s-'60s) it was a sin to go into another church 
and we were told that NO MATTER WHAT we would always be Catholic (i.e. 
always subject to judgment and hell).

I know many contemporaries of mine, some people I've known all my life and 
others who  I've just met, all of whom are not only 'lapsed' RCs but have 
never stepped foot in any church since leaving the church in their 20s. 
Others, like myself have found a spiritual home and do not look back.  I 
think the 'hard to convert' part is based on the inoculation of church 
teaching through the first 3/4 of the 20C.  Have also met a number of 
'former' catholic monks and priests, some who married, some of whom became 
ordained in the Episcopal church. To a person, of those I've know in that 
persuasion, none of them consider themselves RC although all of them are 
members of a mainline denomination.
Lynn

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single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me." 
attributed to Erma Bombeck
 "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk 
by Richard Rohr

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Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Hit and Run Devotion?

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> In a message dated 9/13/2015 6:45:30 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> oppenheimerjw at gmail.com writes:
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> 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 was a discussion on the now-defunct-and-sorely-missed DioBeth
> List some years ago to this effect even though a number of diocesan 
> clergy,
> including retired +Bethlehem (now deceased) Dyer were Roman  Catholics.
> +Dyer was a Roman Catholic Benedictine monk and his wife had been
> a Roman Catholic nun.
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> David Strang.
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