You're a Catholic in Italy when you're born, it's unthinkable to stop being Catholic. You just take the rules a lot more seriously, because it pervades your culture.
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If we get you in the early years of your life and we fill your head with all of the Catholic stories, then it's very hard for you to stop being Catholic. Catholics are Catholics because they like being Catholic.
Plenty of people are raised Catholic and then aren't Catholic anymore, like any religion.
I will forever stick up for Catholics and Christians in general. With a small number of very horrible exceptions, they do play by the rules.
I was raised Catholic at a time when Vatican II was just taking hold.
I come from a Catholic religion, but I'm not Catholic.
Those Catholics, they really nab you when you're young.
I was brought up a very strict Catholic and I don't practice anymore or anything.
To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
My father was a Catholic, but my mother wasn't. She had to do that weird deal you do as a Catholic - they deign to sanction your marriage and you have to bring your children up as Catholics.
One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.