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  1. Karolina

    Any Catholics "in name only" here?

    The book is about being Catholic, not Jewish. The point is that there are so many rituals and traditions that become so ingrained in a Catholic who grows up with it that it becomes a part of one's culture and identity, like being an American, and is not something easily given up even when it's...
  2. Karolina

    Any Catholics "in name only" here?

    I prefer to always seek a second opinion when facing major medical decisions. Well educated and respected people tend towards arrogance and maintaining the status quo. I left a PhD program shortly before completion when I realized it would be a mere certificate, not at all indicative of my...
  3. Karolina

    Why do you participate in communal worship service?

    Sorry, what does the RF stand for?
  4. Karolina

    Why do you participate in communal worship service?

    Can you explain what you mean?
  5. Karolina

    Any Catholics "in name only" here?

    I don't mean secular people who were raised Catholic, but rather people who attend Mass and/or otherwise identify with Catholic practices yet do not fully believe the basic Catholic Christian dogma? If so, I'd like to hear how you make peace with your inner beliefs and the decision to continue...
  6. Karolina

    help me find a community

    Yes, exactly! I know what you mean - something's got to give, and I'm in the process of figuring out what that will be. I'm having to make my peace with the knowledge that I can't put the veil back over my eyes again.
  7. Karolina

    help me find a community

    This did sound promising, but as it turns out there are no physical places where they meet within a one hundred radius of where I live.
  8. Karolina

    help me find a community

    Right! I hear there are more "liturgical" Quakers in the Western US, but on the East coast where I am, it's pretty much unstructured silent worship style meetings, with no preacher, no prepared lesson, no official reference to Scriptures of any kind. It's basically solitary practice but done in...
  9. Karolina

    help me find a community

    What I mean when I say "Neo-Pagan" is an umbrella term for modern takes on ancient earth-based religions. The most commonly known is "Wicca". It was all very symbolic for me - there were masculine and feminine aspects of the Divine, associated respectively with the sun and moon, etc. etc. But...
  10. Karolina

    Why do you participate in communal worship service?

    I've heard this same concern from single Catholics a lot lately - that all manner of group activities is so family focused that it actually makes them feel like the DON'T belong, which is quite ironic.
  11. Karolina

    Why do you participate in communal worship service?

    There was one towards the end of the video that flew off to do its own thing but that was short lived and s/he quickly came right back into the flock! I loved this image, thanks!
  12. Karolina

    help me find a community

    I think I know what you mean, but I have been indoctrinated with a certain understanding of what faith "looks like" and I can't just abandon all of that. So I'm in the process of trying to do what I think you're suggesting. Staying where God has led me and brought me back, but not denying my...
  13. Karolina

    help me find a community

    I am an introvert, yet in spite of this, I find worshiping God together a reminder that my faith is not just something I made up in my head. Plus, it's very helpful to raise my children with faith (my current seeking is quite angst-producing for me right now bc I was hoping to be settled...
  14. Karolina

    help me find a community

    Just looked online and there isn't a gathering place within 100 miles of where I live. And a physical place for meeting is sort of the point of my search. :/
  15. Karolina

    Why do you participate in communal worship service?

    If there are other reasons not listed, please include them in a comment. Also, do any of you attend different places of worship because each meets different needs for you?
  16. Karolina

    divorce initiated by women (reposted from Reform DIR)

    Yes, thank you for the discussion. It seems there are even more problems in the arena of marriage/divorce within Judaism than I originally thought, actually. :\
  17. Karolina

    divorce initiated by women (reposted from Reform DIR)

    This makes me think of something else I read that I also found disturbing - that a husband can be forced to divorce his wife against his will under certain conditions, one of them being if they remaind childless after 10 years of marriage. This really rubbed me the wrong way. It seems, going...
  18. Karolina

    divorce initiated by women (reposted from Reform DIR)

    It sounds like she still has to hope for a favorably-minded rabbi, and if she's in a country/culture/time where such a rabbi can't be found....?
  19. Karolina

    help me find a community

    Thanks, I'll check out that thread. Hadn't actually heard of Progressive Islam before. I'll have to look into this. I recently participated in a live streaming of Evolving Faith that sounds like it may be similar. Thanks. Is Unity different from Unitarian? ( I've only found Unitarian...
  20. Karolina

    help me find a community

    I have. They're trinitarian though.
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