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I was born in 1948 in a burb of Boston, Ma. to a Catholic family. My best friend was Congregational and I wasn't allowed to go to youth Fellowship because he wasn't Catholic.

Not that I wasn't Congregational ... he wasn't Catholic.

THAT is the attitude (and "theology?" ) the Catholic church programmed.

Fulton Sheen was a regular on our TV

We couldn't eat meast on Fridays and there was more than one time we six boys were enough for my father to lose his patience on Sunday morming, throw some words out of his mouth that forced him to declare he couldn't go to church and receive communion, thanks to US.

None of us knew what what was going on because it was in Latin and Sister St Eclaire made us kneel up straight and no talking during children's mass

After mass. we walked over to the Catholic school for Sunday school and could,'t yawn because we opened our mouth in front of sister eclaire and if we covered our mouth to yawn, we had to take our hands away from our mouths.

Don't try to give ME no modern day compromise that now it's all okey dokey to recognize another religion's way of baptism.

Gazillions of Catholics of my era (and earlier) toed a hard line of obedience and guilt for years.

THIS ex-Catholic got saved in 1981 and understood the sharia STYLE (don't misunderstand my comment, Cronos) of religion I had been taught and the freedom of the torn veil Jesus had provided.

Actually, you got saved when Christ died for your sins. You were baptised into Christ's salvation and you affirmed it at confirmation.

Don't try to give ME no modern day compromise that now it's all okey dokey to recognize another religion's way of baptism. -- hardly okey-dokey or compromise, the fact is that valid Trinitarian baptisms are recognized.

you weren't allowed to go to a fellow ship camp because of the same programming that got you into the Sufi style that happened in 1981

None of us knew what what was going on because it was in Latin and Sister St Eclaire made us kneel up straight and no talking during children's mass

After mass. we walked over to the Catholic school for Sunday school and could,'t yawn because we opened our mouth in front of sister eclaire and if we covered our mouth to yawn, we had to take our hands away from our mouths.

So, there was discipline in your Sunday school -- and is it preferable to have the chaos of a modern day public school?

Sheesh, during your time education taught students something, the basics instead of it being a free-for-all chaos. And you reject that? why?

Don't try to give ME no modern day compromise that now it's all okey dokey to recognize another religion's way of baptism

Don't try to give me the usual ex-Catholic load of manure that you know more about my faith than I do, by virtue of having walked away from it.

This "modern-day compromise" to which you refer was taught infallibly by Trent back in the fifties ... the fifteen fifties, that is. It was also taught by St Augustine in the 5th century, various Popes, etc.

I'm sorry Sister Whatever was more interested in how you yawned than she was in teaching you the Faith, but that doesn't change the content of the faith.

Persons who actually interested in learning what the church teaches (as opposed to those who confuse defection with education) may enjoy this essay