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To: Texan5

I’m not sure the church will change any more than the current crop of commies and ne’er do wells will just have to die out. Hopefully the new priests will be more able to communicate (and willing!) the whole horror thing of killing your kids for convenience. And some other of those 10 commandments too.

My kin practice more ‘Spanish’ Catholicism, one of my cousins has traced their family tree back to a few conquistadors. She’s happy the Church kept baptismal and marriage records. The matriarch just about had a stroke when vatican II happened. She still wears the traditional head covering to mass. And every day, for decades, she prayed her son would find a nice Catholic girl. Thankfully for her her prayers were answered. Unfortunately the cousin I’m closest too is apostate now. More agnostic than anything. She hasn’t told her mother though, there’s really no point at this late date given mom’s advanced age.


48 posted on 03/05/2014 2:39:39 PM PST by Black Agnes
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To: Black Agnes

My family came to Mexico mostly from the Spanish Pyrenees in the late 16th-early 17th centuries, so they had bred with individuals from various tribes of Native Americans by the time they got to what is now S.W Texas, where Basque surnames are quite common, even now-so we are Hispanic/New World Catholic.

My husband’s grandfather was Canadian French, from Quebec, and emigrated to the US. They were traditional French Catholics, and it was very different than what I am used to, but he thought my statue of Lady of Guadalupe, the candles and incense I light there, and my altar with the crucifix, flowers, food and wine for dia de los muertos was weird, too. Same faith, different customs.


57 posted on 03/05/2014 3:18:18 PM PST by Texan5 (" You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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