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[othellia]

People who actually convert to Catholicism always intrigue me. Like obviously it's open for converts, but it's always seemed like one of those religions/denominations that you're born into. You're Catholic because your father was Catholic and your father's father was Catholic and so on and so forth.

[brooms]

are you from the usa or an european country? it's more of a social religion in those places, but the catholic church as an institution is still very engaged in promoting conversion - http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Item/679/where_converts_are_made.aspx , http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/vatican-stats-show-continued-growth-in-africa-asia/

[othellia]

USA, which is why there's always this huge disconnect with my personal experiences vs the church as a whole.

At least half the USA Catholics I know (if not more), don't believe half the dogma, don't go to church regularly, etc, but they still call themselves Catholics, or at least identify as Catholic? It's almost like a sort of Judaism where you're Jewish because you were born Jewish rather than your actual beliefs and/or practices.

I went to mass for Ash Wednesday and actually ran into a friend who I had NO IDEA was Catholic, and we were both like "yeah. we don't go to mass as often as we should, disagree with a lot of the church teaching, but in the end we're Catholic." And then we talked about how much more awesome the service music was in the 90's.

But on the flip side, I do have a couple family members who are a lot more hardcore, don't believe in abortion or gay rights (and at least one uncle who I think is against birth control due to how many children he has, which even my GRANDPARENTS have sarcastically commented on), and then I read about shit going down in places like Argentina and the Philippines, and then I'm reminded just how schism'ed the church really is.

The recent American nun controversies I think display it the best:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/05/21/catholic-nuns-go-rogue.html
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/09/09/under-pope-francis-vatican-criticisms-of-american-nuns-keep-coming

[diet_poison]

It does kinda seem that way to an extent doesn't it? A lot of people just take it for granted - their family is Catholic, therefore they are Catholic.

It may have to do with some of the rituals practiced within the church (such as baptizing infants and various other stages of recognition for children), or it may just be a social thing, but you don't see this nearly as much with other Christian denominations - if someone says "my family is Christian" they typically mean most or some or maybe one parent or something like that, and it doesn't necessarily imply that they are also Christian. But with Catholicism it kinda does.