Ronald David Bruno
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Thanks for sharing part of your life experience.Well, not that many, for sure. But when my birth mom died and I was a teen and dad remarried... he remarried a Catholic girl.... (ITALIAN, Catholic and large family) They all were and are very very Catholic.
Except the one... now dead... NO WRONG 2... 1 athiest and 1 agnostic... but they certainly still went to Mass???
Anyway, for the first year of their marriage every Sunday we would go to MASS... and then go to my Protestant church. Her dad , from Italy, had been a Paltine Guard 100 plus years ago and he had no ude for that church and kept telling us to watch ou and be careful of anyone Jesuit..... (another story)
Then mom had a close friend who was Catholic... Irish Catholic and I knew her kids....
Our neighbor and their 10 kids are all. They do not permit their kids to marry any non Catholic... Her sisters and husbands are....
So maybe a couple hundred????
@3Ressurections .... Is this so about the summary?
"According to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the book of Revelation is apocalyptic-literature filled with symbolism, much of which cannot be taken as literal and instead, provides readers with spiritual themes of the truths of Christ’s authority and ultimate power over evil."
All that symbolism cannot put a finger on current events so it is just left a mystery and/or symbolic reflections oand themes throughout Church history.
Partial-Peterists would summarize It in a very similar way.
I am half Italian and everyone on my father's side was Catholic too as would most be from that country.
I even had a Communion and Confirmation at 11 years old, but it meant nothing to me ... didn't get it. I became a real Christian at age 35, not to say Catholics aren't Christians - of course they are. I just learned that up until my introduction into the Catholic Church, they were still performing the sermons in Latin and then later I was taught by a Protestant Pastor that Catholics didn 't really read their Bibles much.
My wonderful Aunt Ann ( a Catholic) was so against Protestants and when she found out that I became one, she said to my Mom with negative smirky conotation, "Maybe he is one of those "born again" Christians" - right in front of me. I felt like putting her in her place by asking her if she really read her Bible and if so what she thought about John 3:3? But I chose to keep silent, as not to create any discord and to respect her. But here she was, 70+ years old, a church going Catholic all her life, professing her faith in your face, but ignorant to the basics. It just seems her life was accompanied by Rosary beads, weekly confession, a zillion Our Father and Hail Mary prayers. I can imagine how a conversion about the Book of Revelation would go with her? Lol Oh well, she was a good person.