You gotta understand that grandma was born in 1909 and her dad was bornin the 1860s in Poland.
The archaic school of thought was not a good thing.
I attended a Catholic school for the first 2 1/2 years of high school and (although I became a good grades freak to the point of making myself sick - literally) they were the best years of my entire schooling as required by law. (College was better, of course, but I probably never would have gone if I hadn't learned what a brainiac I was at the Catholic school.)
I just have a number of issues that I need therapy for...due to ramdom acts of Catholicism. Just pick all of the most important things about the facts of life and Catholic teaching and such and skip a few definitions and miss a few important years so that you have about 23 pieces of the 100 piece puzzle and see how that can mess up your life...
IMHO it is all or nothing or consistency or something...not on again, off again.
IN retrospect, I do see where my brother was a chip off the ol' block...
Hmmm. It may not have been Catholicism, but the ideas and attitudes of the teachers at your school, and others. There have been a lot of folks who learned incorrectly about Church teachings from folks with their own agendas and personal strangeness. When I became an adult, I resolved to teach MYSELF what the Church teaches. It was quite a nice revelation in many ways.