[Incorrigible]

What I find humorous is when these lay southern converts to Catholicism come up to New Jersey and try to host some type of retreat.  In my current and my previous parish, both offers went over like a lead balloon.  The recent convert evangelism just doesn't click with cradle to grave, church going Catholics in the Northeast and big Midwest cities. 

I had a similar experience when I lived in Redmond, WA and the church there seemed composed of mostly converts.  I felt like I was in a Pentecostal Church!  I left that parish for a more toned down one in Kirkland.

[Clemenza]

The cradle to grave Catholics in the Northeast are merely Episcopalians who lie about using birth control. This New Yorker knows tons of people who refer to themselves as "Catholic" even though they can't explain the doctrine of transfiguration and know NOTHING about the bible.