Reply #32: Yeah, it struck me too when I wrote that, how that was only the [View All]

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beginning of all of the ways that the Church pervaded out lives, only the tip of the ice-berg.

But there was something different about it then compared to now; I can state with complete certainty that we were absolutely encouraged to do our own moral thinking. Beginning when we reached what was called "the age of reason", 7 years old, and started to go to Confession, and receive the Eucharist, you were told to examine your conscience thoroughly. That required asking questions about right and wrong, formulating answers, and judging yourself.

I don't go to church anymore, largely because I realized I couldn't approve of something that sold its soul for political power in the Pro-Life movement, but I'm still Catholic.