Thread for 'Cradle' Catholics - come out, come out wherever you are!

[Tinker]

Whenever there is a debate on mumsnet I'm always struck by how many Catholics there are so, out of interest:

1. Who was born into a Catholic family?

2. Who went to Catholic school?

3. Are you still a practising Catholic? If not ,why not?

4. Will you be sending your child to a Catholic school? If not why not?

5. Yes - both parents. Irish background for mother (teacher), English background, mostly, for father (probation officer)

6. Yes, run by nuns

7. Not at all. Things seriously didn't add up for me when I was about 17. Have moved further an further away from belief in god as I've got older.

8. Certainly not. Too much negative programming (my experince)

Anyone else? Non-catholic opinions welcome as well.

I asked for my posts to be deleted because they revealed rather too much about where I live and thanks to DH's work I get paranoid about that.

There was a misunderstanding between me and a couple of irish-descended mumsnetters about the difficulties experienced by "recusant" parishes when Irish priests were brought in to "fill gaps", major personality/culture clashes that are still causing bad feeling today. As i now live in an area dominated by the irish wing of the church I am a little uncomfortable, esp as most lapsed RCs i meet seem to have come through this "wing". obviously that's just my personal experience and my concerns about this wing of the church in no way reflect my views on Ireland or Irish people.

Hope that's a bit clearer and doesn't upset anyone!

Oh and no I wouldn't want a separarte mumsnet for Rcs either!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

1: Born into Catholic Family well mum was catholic dad went along with it to marry her.

2: Went to catholic girls school until 11

3: nope, mum quit the church in order to divorce my dad, he wasn't catholic
4: not for ym kids, quite happy with where they are going anyway...

Aww thanks Mary! One of those awful situations where my tendency to write posts as if people will know exactly what i mean backfired horribly. Made me feel quite ill at the time

Not sure how I missed this thread

1. Yes
2. Yes primary and ecumenical (combined RC and CofE) secondary
3. Yes 4)Yes as its the best round here - if it wasn't they'd go elsewhere I currently teach at a catholic school but i'm not sure that I believe seperate schools are necessarily desirable - quite liked my secondary as at least there was more diversity of views