Um, because you were responding to a post directed at me?
I know you think you're having great fun, and I hope you don't regret it at some future time.
As for me, I was a member of your church for six years and did my best to be true and loyal. But apparently because I didn't disown my culture and become an urban Irishman all my efforts were in vain.
You may laugh at me all you please. But any church that thinks it is too good for my beloved mother to belong to is beneath my contempt. Perhaps you'd like to laugh at her too?
At any rate, it's you who missed out on that one. I know her.
Oh there are lots of projectors on these threads. If you want to catagorize yourself, that’s fine by me.
But truly. I don’t know, maybe it’s me but I don’t really understand a word you are talking about.
Who brought up your mother? What in the world is Urban Irish?
I’ve got some Irish in me, I’ve never been asked to be “Urban” anything.
Huh?
why wasn’t your mother allowed to join?
You were treated rudely at a particular parish or parishes? Very rudely?
That is the fault of those individual people, not the Catholic Church.
You're describing the bad behavior of individuals. There is no Catholic teaching that would bar anyone from becoming Catholic. In fact, those individuals were acting contrary to Catholic teaching.
I've never heard of that kind of behavior. That doesn't mean it didn't happen. What it DOES mean is that it's not policy.
Like a lot of us...I'm curious what you mean. Could you explain more? I'm a rural Italian/English/French mutt and have never faced a similar situation to yourself.