His mother was Roman Catholic? I thought I read that her family were Unitarians. Off to see what I can find on this.
I can’t find anything that says she was Roman Catholic.
In a 2007 speech, Obama contrasted the beliefs of his mother to those of her parents, and commented on her spirituality and skepticism: “My mother, whose parents were nonpracticing Baptists and Methodists, was one of the most spiritual souls I ever knew. But she had a healthy skepticism of religion as an institution.”
Barack Obama has said of Ann Dunham, “My mother was a Christian from Kansas.”[1][1] Earlier he had said, “I was not raised in a religious household... My mother’s own experiences... only reinforced this inherited skepticism. Her memories of the Christians who populated her youth were not fond ones... And yet for all her professed secularism, my mother was in many ways the most spiritually awakened person that I’ve ever known.”[1] And his half-sister, Maya said, when asked if their mother was an atheist, “I wouldn’t have called her an atheist,” she said. “She was an agnostic. She basically gave us all the good books—the Bible, the Hindu Upanishads and the Buddhist scripture, the Tao Te Ching—and wanted us to recognize that everyone has something beautiful to contribute.”[1] And, from another source, “She touted herself as an atheist, and it was something she’d read about and could argue,” said Maxine Box, who was Dunham’s best friend.”[1] One of her freinds said of her “She always felt that marriage as an institution was not particularly essential or importan