Being a Catholic Citizen in America

I’ve turned my “About Me” page into several shorter pages, arranged hierarchically:

• About Me
  • Brilliant, Talented, and On Medication
  • Becoming a Catholic
  • Being a Catholic Citizen in America
    • Values and my Native Culture
  • Science? In a ‘Religious’ Blog??
  • Journal
  • Who are Those Catholics?

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Catholic, Yes; Typical, No

Some of my fellow-Catholics share my lively interest in this astounding universe, others do not.

I’m not a ‘typical’ Catholic. After two millennia, and with more than a billion Catholics living around the world, I doubt that there is a ‘typical’ Catholic.

Like I said elsewhere, I’m a convert to Catholicism.

I love our rich history and traditions: and understand that we are literally καθολικός, universal.

There’s a difference, by the way, between traditions and Tradition.

As a Catholic, I am dedicated to our Tradition.

That emphatically does not mean that I see the customs of some American Catholics of the mid-20th century as the only ‘real’ Catholicism: and that’s another topic. Topics.