Attending CCD in the 70’s was nearly fatal to my faith. If it wasn’t for a fairly rigid and masculine Jesuit education in an all boys high school (by old time Jesuits) I may not be in the pews every Sunday.
I like the idea of muscle T’s but at the older side of Generation X, I wouldn’t mind some other options. It’s cool though.
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I definitely see evidence of Generation X Catholics being more conservative and orthodox than the baby boomers.
“I definitely see evidence of Generation X Catholics being more conservative and orthodox than the baby boomers”
I can identify.
I made those felt banners - I feel like what the author described as the generation that feels they are “missing something”.
my parents were raised in the atmosphere of fasting every friday - confess every saturday - and attend to mass spoken in a language you don’t understand while looking at the priest’s back.
I’m not arguing about whether this form of catholicism was “better or worse” - I’m just relaying how THEY perceived and it explains WHY they wound up less conservative than me.
I didn’t have that experience - so now I’m reacting against my wishy washy catechesis and have been influenced by Pope John Paul II.
Ping list for the discussion of the politics and social (and sometimes nostalgic) aspects that directly effects Generation Reagan / Generation-X (Those born from 1965-1981) including all the spending previous generations are doing that Gen-X and Y will end up paying for.
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