(July 10, 2017 at 2:06 pm)Tazzycorn Wrote:(July 10, 2017 at 1:25 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Pretty sure that the Catholic church doesn't consider parishioners who don't believe every jot and tittle of Catholic dogma to be Catholics.
It depends really. When somebody is looking to get married, buried, their children baptised, comfirmed or into school, they're not proper catlick without all the mumbo jumbo. But when the catlick church wants handouts (either from the government or the person themselves) any vague affirmatives are taken as proof positive that the person in question is 100% doctrinaire.
emphasis mine.
I'm gonna disagree with that. My mother was married in a catholic church. Twice. To two different men and I didn't get enrolled into catholic school until I was in 4th grade. Nearly all of my classmates had received their first communion in 1st grade. I didn't get mine until 4th grade. I was enrolled back in public school by 7th grade.
Moreover - I was still a believer when I had my oldest. She was christened at two months old in a catholic church. I wasn't married to her dad either. I didn't have any special catholic requirements for any of that shit - neither did my mother. She was a divorcee` twice over when she got married to her third husband in a catholic church.
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