Reply #26: I think we shared the same things [View All]

[MaineDem]

I went to Catholic schools for 12 years...no 13. From 7th grade on I was in an all female school. To some extent those last 6 years were empowering in a sense but, in retrospect, they could have been so much more. Any discussion we started regarding the "humanity" of Jesus was quashed immediately; any dissent was not allowed; any discussion about women's roles in the church was stymied by the nuns at every turn. And they wonder why so many of my sister alumnae are lapsed Catholics.

My mother prays every day that we'll go back to church. (Why are all my siblings in the same category as me, I wonder?)