{"id":5546,"date":"2021-12-22T00:47:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T00:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/?page_id=5546"},"modified":"2024-11-27T17:09:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T17:09:14","slug":"being-a-catholic-citizen-in-america","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/about-me\/being-a-catholic-citizen-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Being a Catholic Citizen in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brendans-island.com\/blogsource\/20190415ff\/BHG_logo_new_MASTER_Smooth-160.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Brian H. Gill's 'BHG' logo.\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve turned my &#8220;About Me&#8221; page into several shorter pages, arranged hierarchically:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/about-me\/\">About Me<\/a>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/about-me\/brilliant-talented-and-on-medication\/\">Brilliant, Talented, and On Medication<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/about-me\/becoming-a-catholic\/\">Becoming a Catholic<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Being a Catholic Citizen in America\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/values-and-my-native-culture\/\">Values and my Native Culture<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/science-in-a-religious-blog\/\">Science? In a &#8216;Religious&#8217; Blog??<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/about-me\/journal\/\">Journal<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/who-are-those-catholics\/\">Who are Those Catholics?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-black-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-black-background-color has-background is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a name=\"catholic\"><\/a>Catholic, Yes; Typical, No<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/happy-saint-patricks-day\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brendans-island.com\/blogsource\/20210209ff\/20210317-DSC08994-SaintPatricksDayAndMe--trim-329.JPG?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Brian H. Gill. (March 17, 2021)\" align=\"right\"><\/a>Some of my fellow-Catholics share my lively interest in this astounding universe, others do not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not a &#8216;typical&#8217; Catholic. After two millennia, and with more than a billion Catholics living around the world, I doubt that there is a &#8216;typical&#8217; Catholic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like I said elsewhere, I&#8217;m a convert to Catholicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I love our rich history and traditions: and understand that we are literally <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Catholic_(term)\">\u03ba\u03b1\u03b8\u03bf\u03bb\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc\u03c2<\/a>, universal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s a difference, by the way, between traditions and Tradition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a Catholic, I am dedicated to our Tradition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That emphatically does not mean that I see the customs of some American Catholics of the mid-20th century as the only &#8216;real&#8217; Catholicism: and that&#8217;s another topic. Topics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loving our history and traditions. Being dedicated to our Traditions, but not trying to live in a bygone age. <a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/about-me\/being-a-catholic-citizen-in-america\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":6,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"I am Catholic and American, but not a typical example of either.","jetpack_seo_html_title":"Being a Catholic Citizen in America","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5546","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P7Dwtw-1rs","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5546"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8656,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5546\/revisions\/8656"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}