CeilingCat
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| Quote (Amadan @ Nov. 16 2011,04:35) | Isn't she at least nominally a Catholic? And of the emigrant-Irish variety, at that? (Our Lady of Nagging Guilt, pray for us...)
Catholics of that generation were imbued with a deep and firm conviction that Protestants - particularly the fundagelicals - are Teh Eeevul. The old joke about Fr. O'Reilly asking Brigid what she wanted to be when she grew up (punchline "Oh, that's OK, I thought you said 'A protestant'!") was scarily close to the truth.
It is not unusual for those of that background to end up wallowing in fundagelical primal ooze. But doing would normally require a Hallelujah Moment and a Jack Chick style Frillologue, typically adorned with a few evil Jesuits etc etc.
Densye, your mother is suffering because of your infidelity to The One True Church! Have you no shame? |
She said once that she's a convert to Catholicism. I have no idea what her maiden name was, but her husband seems to be mercifully dead.
ETA: Denyse at Husband's grave: "But what does this 'STFU' on his tombstone mean?"
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