I read Rockville, and I was like, "ah, this is probably a different Rockville that she's talking about, than where I live." Then I read about DC, and I realized that you must be relatively local.
I'm Catholic... kind of. My sister told me that I shouldn't go around telling people I'm Catholic any more, since "I don't believe what they believe." I appear to have somehow failed to grasp the concept of believing what someone else tells me to believe, rather than being open-minded and reasoning things out for myself. Who'd have thought??? :P
Among local Catholic Churches in Rockville, I was going to this St. Patrick's one for a while, but it's a bit on that Conservative Catholic side of things. I grew up with that, and I have a lot of problems with the hypocrisy of the religious right which seems to filter into there. They got better when the old pastor retired, but still. I switched over to this St. Elizabeth's church instead... that church feels a lot better to me, with priests who are more apt to say things like "vote your conscience" than "you have to vote pro-life, so vote Republican."
Anyway, I was just curious if your Catholic relatives in Rockville go to either of those two churches. Given their Republican background, maybe it'll give me a little more information on political demographics of churches around here...
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I'm Catholic... kind of. My sister told me that I shouldn't go around telling people I'm Catholic any more, since "I don't believe what they believe." I appear to have somehow failed to grasp the concept of believing what someone else tells me to believe, rather than being open-minded and reasoning things out for myself. Who'd have thought??? :P
Among local Catholic Churches in Rockville, I was going to this St. Patrick's one for a while, but it's a bit on that Conservative Catholic side of things. I grew up with that, and I have a lot of problems with the hypocrisy of the religious right which seems to filter into there. They got better when the old pastor retired, but still. I switched over to this St. Elizabeth's church instead... that church feels a lot better to me, with priests who are more apt to say things like "vote your conscience" than "you have to vote pro-life, so vote Republican."
Anyway, I was just curious if your Catholic relatives in Rockville go to either of those two churches. Given their Republican background, maybe it'll give me a little more information on political demographics of churches around here...