Philip F. Lawler Quotes

But Why Would Catholics Defend An Anti-Catholic Tradition? In Part Because They Had Ceased To Identify With Their Faith; By The 1980s, To Identify Oneself As Catholic In Boston Was To Give An Ethnic Rather Than A Religious Description. The Voters Who Identified Themselves As Catholics Were Telling Pollsters Something About Their Backgrounds But Not Necessarily Their Beliefs. The Fashionable Trend, For Well Over A Generation, Had Been For Catholics To Leave Their Religious Backgrounds Behind. By 1986 A Majority Had Done So.

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