Reply #66: Interesting that you point that out. [View All]

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I can remember being in 5th grade and sitting in catechism class with Father Flanagan, who'd come over from the church across the street to teach us. And he'd start pontificating (pardon the pun) about how marriages and families should behave and blah-blah-blah, and I clearly remember wondering how he could possibly make pronouncements on husbands and wives and moms and dads when he'd never been one and couldn't possibly understand. Nobody ever provided me suitable answers to that one, either.

By the way, MaineDem, your comment about your sister alumnae being lapsed Catholics - I recently went back to my old high school because my daughter wanted to go there (and is now a student there), and learned that of the nuns I had in the elementary school, virtually every one of the younger ones had left the order.

And why was I not surprised?