So the other woman with us at lunch -- if I can avoid it I don't like to dine alone with women not my wife -- called herself a Buddhist Catholic. From Belgium, Catholic schools all her life, she was never really catechized, and so she's been drawn to Buddhism, and is trying to mix them. After learning I was going on a men's retreat, she said Catholics really don't do that in Europe. Except for Opus Dei she said. The Pentecostal chided her gently for not practicing her faith.
Question: is it liberal to be a non-practicing Catholic? I think people mix these two types of people together too easily. I think to be a liberal Catholic is to stand for something positive. It isn't to be less of a Catholic.
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