The Rude Pundit - You Wanna Keep Harassing Women at Clinics? Then Let's Play

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46. My own relationship with the Catholic Church is... complicated.

My mom wanted to be a nun until she encountered The Creepy Priest. (Her family was Wild West Catholic with a side order of Jewish.) Creepy priest leered at my mom's boobs.

So my mom escaped, married my dad, enjoyed much good Catholic unprotected sex and had many children until her reproductive machinery broke.

I'm a radical lefty social justice Catholic heretic, not mafia, so maybe I'm still okay. My wife and kids are more Catholic than I am. I'm correctly baptized but came into the official Church from a side door. Previously I'd had a girlfriend who was Orthodox "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" style, but twisted. Very, very twisted,

Years ago my parents lived in a very conservative Catholic parish. Attending Mass there was painful. Nobody in my family went to Mass on Sunday, not even my Italian-born great uncle except on the most Holy Days. The Priest did preside when my great uncle died, and he dropped by the wake and everything, but it seemed to be a kind of subtle "Fuck You."

My great aunt later managed to throw a bigger "Fuck You!" party back at the Church with an extreme old Irish wake, lot's of alcohol, partying, and no priests. She rests in peace beside her husband.