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You are mistaken in your statement that I am not a Roman Catholic. I was baptized a Catholic and went to Catholic schools for fifteen years of my life. I am also a former altar boy.

I believe I am entitled to criticize the failings of the Catholic Church, wherever and whenever I choose.

I do not consider myself a Catholic today---in large part because of the abuses of the Church which I have seen first-hand.

Your reply does not mean that you are a Catholic. It means that you are an apostate from Catholicism as was Luther as was Calvin as have been many people through the centuries.

We have very few actually Catholic colleges in the United States today. The few are mostly colleges created since the 1967 Land o'Lakes Conference organized by the regrettable Fr. Hesburgh of Notre Dame at which all but 6 existing Catholic colleges declared themselves secular. Don't believe the fund-raising propaganda.

Regrettably few of our grammar schools or high schools are very Catholic either. Perhaps you were never properly evangelized in the first place.

I am genuinely sorry that you no longer consider yourself Catholic because of abuses you have seen.

Your posts are those of one who is not Catholic and you say that you do not consider yourself one. You seem to be correct in that respect. I would, however, repeat that, if you had fifteen years of actually Catholic education, you would know that merely being divorced would not make it sinful to receive the Eucharist.

It becomes easier to respond to posts when the poster gives some relevant details as you now have. You do not say whether you believe that the Eucharist is the Real Presence. If you don't believe that, why do you care who receives, having left the Church?