North, if you want to see why my reply had energy in it, the present family situation is described in the Kissling thread if you want to go looking for it.
It’s just so sad. We grew up Catholic, never knew there was a difference among Christians, my parents grew up poor and hungry and humble when they were young, and they loved English things but never made it an idol and a cause for snobbery and a superior sneering attitude. We practiced charity towards the poor and served them face to face.
It is so sad to see my siblings become anglophile sneering snobs who have contempt for poor and working class people and ethnic people. They’ve changed their kids’ schools (the sib in the city who has some schools to choose from) because this school had too many nonwhite kids, that one had too many Catholics, that one was too working class, etc. But they aren’t quite as rich as their church friends to send the kids to the more-expensive-than-college prep school for the privileged rich. They honestly think they are better than other people. How did this happen? It didn’t used to be that way. They even make remarks at me and never used to. They seem to be blind to it, because they live in a very liberal city and read the papers and parrot the PC party line. But then their actions and unguarded opinions are just so different!
I never say a thing, no debates, no arguments, I even go to their church with them (but cannot receive communion and still have to seek out a Mass), and I mingle with others and am gracious. I don’t break out rosary beads or anything distinctly Catholic around them and their families. I wake up early or stay up late to pray. I take great pains to not to offend or even show too much religious fervor or emotion; “let’s not get carried away.”
And this isn’t even the current family dilemma that has a direct connection to ECUSA moral bankruptcy and leads me to say whitewashed sepulchres. No rubrics righteousness can justify it. See the Kissling thread.
